Note 45 — Chapter IX · PSYCHO-PHYSICAL AND TEMPERAMENTAL QUESTIONS

The above translation and interpretation is based upon Krätzschmar’s admirably psychological commentary, Das Buch Ezechiel, Göttingen, 1900, pp. v, vi; 45, 49. But I think he is wrong in taking that six months’ abnormal condition to have given rise, in Ezekiel’s mind, to a belief in a previous divine order and to an interpretation of this order. All the strictly analogical cases of religious ecstasy, not hysteria, point to a strong mental impression, such as that order and belief having preceded and occasioned the peculiar psycho-physical state.