Ezekiel — Chapter 12
Ezekiel enacts the exile by digging through the wall of his house and carrying out his belongings at night — a symbolic prophecy of Zedekiah's flight and capture (2 Kings 25:4-7). Lapide notes this is another prophetia facti and remarks on the extraordinary demand God makes on the prophet's own body and life to make the divine word visible.
Verse 10
The sign applies to Zedekiah ('princeps hoc onere portans'): Lapide provides careful historical commentary on the fulfillment in 2 Kings 25, noting that Zedekiah was blinded before being taken to Babylon — thus he 'did not see the land' (v. 13) even while going there, fulfilling the literal letter of the prophecy that seemed contradictory.
Verse 23
The days are at hand and the fulfillment of every vision: God corrects the proverb 'the days grow long and every vision fails.' Lapide applies this to those who postpone conversion on the assumption that judgment is distant. He quotes Augustine's famous 'Da mihi castitatem, sed noli modo' (Confessions VIII.7) as the exemplum of this spiritual procrastination.