Excerpt from The Century Bible, Vol. 18: Ezekiel
The priestly and ritualistic element in his nature, strange to say, only makes this passion the more intense; for in him, as we shall see, sin does not merely rouse a moral indignation, as in Isaiah or Juvenal or Carlyle; it fills him with a sense of almost physical repulsion with a loathing and horror that control for the time his whole being, and inspire him with a kind of fury towards those who prac tice or even tolerate it; a fury whose expression some times all but oversteps what are to us the limits even of decency, and equalled only by the sacred rage of Dante.
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