Pastoral Vigilance
Ezekiel 33:7-9
So you, O son of man, I have set you a watchman to the house of Israel; therefore you shall hear the word at my mouth…


Latimer told the clergy in his time that, if they would not learn diligence and vigilance of the prophets and apostles, they should learn it of the devil, who goes up and down his diocese, and acts by an untired power, seeking whom he may destroy. When the wolves are abroad, the shepherd should not sleep, but watch, remembering that he were better have all the blood of all the men in the world upon him, than the blood of one soul upon him, by his negligence or otherwise.

( T. Brooks.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me.

WEB: So you, son of man, I have set you a watchman to the house of Israel; therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.




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