Responsibility: more binding and loosing (Sunday XXIII or Ordered time)

“God sends the prophet Ezechiel as a sentry or watchman to the Hebrew nation with an enormous responsibility for that entire people…”

The keys of Office (Sunday XXI of Ordered time)

“This Old Testament officer was invested with a uniform of office and given some sort of key, either a symbolic key or an actual large key somehow pinned to his garment, given charge of the king’s castle, able to admit and dismiss in his absence.”