That Ezekiel is told to stand up on his feet indicates that he has control of himself. If a man is unconscious one cannot tell him to get up. Verse 2 supplies the first of many references to the Spirit of God both in the life and prophecy of Ezekiel. This is a theme he shares with Isaiah. By contrast, there is not one reference to the Spirit in conjunction with Jeremiah’s life or ministry, but surely the Spirit of God was as active in and through his life as with his two colleagues. The Spirit addresses Ezekiel as “son of man,” an expression the NRSV renders regularly as “mortal.” This title is used for the prophet about ninety times in the book and is used of no other prophet in the Old Testament. Possibly the repetition of this title is due to the fact that Ezekiel describes visions of …