(Ezek. 3., Rev. 10.) Both Ezekiel and John were commanded to eat the book which contained the subjects of their future testimonies... By eating we understand that the word was to be appropriated. These prophets were to make the messages they were commissioned to deliver their own.... Even eating, or appropriating, is not sufficient: there is also the digesting of what we have appropriated.... Most of us know from our own experience that the process of digesting the truth we have really received is often a slow operation; and also that the truth is never effective in us, or through us, until it has been digested. There is a great distinction therefore between... Ezekiel having the roll in his mouth, and enjoying its sweetness, and eating it with his belly and filling his bowels with it....