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Ezekiel 3:17

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“Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel. Therefore hear the word from my mouth, and warn them from me.

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Verse 17. Watchman: the usual title of those placed over others. Calmet. 33:2. Isaiah 21:6. Let none perish through thy neglect. Calmet.—“He (the pastor) kills the man whom he delivers up to death by silence.” Saint Gregory hom. xi. 9.

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