Excerpt from Commentaries on the First Twenty Chapters of the Book of the Prophet Ezekiel, Vol. 1 AN interest of no ordinary kind is excited in the mind of the Biblical Student by the mention of calvin's lectures ON ezekiel. The last Work which a great man leaves un finished, because arrested by the hand Of death, becomes at once an heir-loom to posterity. After the lapse of nearly three hundred years, we read this affecting sentence with a tear and a sigh: When this last Lecture was completed, that most illustrious man john calvin, who had previously been weakened by sickness, then became so much worse that he was compelled to lie on his couch, and could not proceed further in his explanation of Ezekiel: This is the reason why he stopped at the end Of the twentieth chapter, and did not complete the work so happily begun. Afflicted as calvin was for the last few years of his life, the wonder is that he accomplished so much in preaching, lecturing, and dictating; and although we have still to mourn over so much unfinished, we are filled with astonishment at the labours he achieved. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.