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As I read Ezekiel these past days and noticed how frequently God addresses the prophet asson of man, I grew curious about that title. I thought that it must bear relationship to Jesus’s reference to himself as The Son of Man in the gospels. So a quick search at a bible trivia website showed, first of all, that God calls Ezekielsonof man90 times in the prophetic book that bears his name. But, my source pointed out, there’s no Messianic connection or any other significance to the termson of manapplied to Ezekiel in relation to Jesus.
There are also important differences betweenson of manin the two Testaments. Notice, for example, howson of manin Ezekiel is not capitalized; in the New Testament,The Son of Manis capitalized as a proper noun. In addition, the gospels always refer to Jesus using the definite articlethe: He’s not justaSon of Man; he’sTHESon of Man. Such is a fitting title for the one and only Savior!
The common nounson of man,we find,is also used in other books of the Old Testament. To the Jewish hearer of Ezekiel’s time, that common term would have suggested humility, an indicator that man is mortal, the heir to Adam’s curse and someone who, in the end, desperately depends on God for salvation, because man cannot save himself. There is no honor in the Old Testament for being called ason of man!
In the end, we conclude that it’s truly for our good that there is only oneThe Son of Man. The rest of ussons of man [or daughters of man], like Ezekiel, are related to one another in the imperfection of our humanity and in our inability to save neither ourselves nor one another. We needTheSon of Man for salvation! And by the grace of God, that need is supplied. While we must tarry as meresons of manfor our earthly passage, we live under the hopeful assurance that we will no longer be sons of man, but rather sons ofTheSon of Man, fully vested heirs with Christ throughout eternal glory.
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