Son of Man - I've puzzled over this phrase for many years now. When Jesus uses it, is he saying he fully human? Or is he declaring a distinct and special relationship? What does he intend? My father-in-law, a skeptic, once wielded this phrase as a way of asserting that Jesus was no different than the rest of us. "But we are all sons of men," he concluded as if the term had been abused. I knew it couldn't be that straightforward, but that I couldn't articulate why it wasn't. This morning while beginning Ezekiel, I came across this distinction in the Believer's Bible Commentary: "The Lord commissioned Ezekiel, whom He calls "son of man." This important expression occurs ninety times in Ezekiel. Taylor explains the usage: The first words that God addresses to Ezekiel appropriately put the prophet in his rightful place before the majesty which he has been seeing in his vision. The phrase son of man is a Hebraism which emphasizes Ezekiel