에스겔 34장에서 목자 모티프를 사용한 이유

결국 에스겔이 목자 모티프를 통해 선포하고 싶었던 내용은 "우리 가운데 거하시는 하나님"이다,

Then, however, a final expansion makes it quite indubitably clear how much God’s desire for salvation really means the complete deliverance of his people, a deliverance in which those who hunger and thirst will be satisfied (Lk 6:21; Mt 5:6), those who are in danger of losing their peace receive “peace on earth” (Lk 2:14; Jn 16:33) and in which every heavy yoke of constraint and enslavement is done away (Jn 8:36). In the removal of all shame, God’s people will find their full glory (Jn 17:22). In all this, however, there is no question of the establishment of human dominion, but of the event in which God reveals himself as the God of his people. “Your God—among you.” Such a future is proclaimed to God’s people by his prophet.- Walther Zimmerli, Ezekiel 2: A Commentary on the Book of the Prophet Ezekiel Chapters 25–48, Hermeneia: A Critical and Historical Commentary on the Bible, Translated by James D. Martin (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1983) 223.