New. We can do no good of ourselves: but we are admonished of our free-will, that we may do what we can, and ask for grace. (Council of Trent, Session vi. 5, 11.) (James i. 5., and 2 Corinthians iii. 5.) (St. Augustine, &c.) (Calmet)
Verse Ezekiel 18:31. _CAST AWAY_] With a holy violence, dash away every transgression and incentive to it. _MAKE YOU A NEW HEART_] Call upon God for it, and he will give it: for as sure as you _earn...
Ezekiel 18:1. In Ezekiel 18:1, we find the false accusation against God and the divine answer, and this is followed in Ezekiel 18:5 by the conditions of life, “The soul that sinneth, it shall die” ...
WHEREBY, &c. The. Septuagint reads "which ye have committed against Me". HEART. SPIRIT. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), App-6, for all that is of the spirit, and not of the flesh. Compa...
Exhortation to repentance founded on the principle that God will deal with every man according to the condition in which he is found....
_a new heart_ Cf. ch. Ezekiel 11:19; Ezekiel 36:26; Jeremiah 4:4; Jeremiah 24:7;...
MAKE YOU A NEW HEART AND A NEW SPIRIT— The prophets often exhort the Jews to an inward purity and holiness, that they might not rely upon an outward legal righteousness, and a scrupulous exactness in...
B. The Potential of Personal Repentance 18:21-32 TRANSLATION (21) But if the wicked one turns from all his sins which he has done, and keeps all My statutes, and deals justly and righteously, he shal...
Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin. THE...
GOD'S EQUITY VINDICATED The popular view of Israel's calamities, as expressed in a current proverb, was that they were the punishment of the sins of former generations. Though there was a measure of t...
EZEKIEL: ‘THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM GOD’ THE *SIN OF JUDAH AND THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 1 TO 24 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 18 * In this chapter, the *Lord explains that each person...
הַשְׁלִ֣יכוּ מֵ עֲלֵיכֶ֗ם אֶת ־כָּל ־פִּשְׁעֵיכֶם֙...
THE RELIGION OF THE INDIVIDUAL Ezekiel 18:1 IN the sixteenth chapter, as we have seen, Ezekiel has asserted in the most unqualified terms the validity of the principle of national retribution. The na...
THE REVERSAL OF THE DIVINE JUDGMENT Ezekiel 18:14-32 The Jews of Ezekiel's day asserted that God's dealings with their nation were not just, because they were suffering, not for their own sins, but f...
The next prophecy was directed against the false attitude of mind obtaining among the exiled people, which had expressed itself in a proverb, "The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's te...
Cast away from you all your transgressions, by which ye have transgressed; and make (i) you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? (i) He shows that man cannot forsake...
Here, in conclusion, is a most striking and just appeal from the Lord, followed up with the strongest assurance of mercy. But here again, as before, the expression concerning the Lord's pleasure in th...
Ezekiel again exhorts the people to leave off complaining, and to acknowledge that there is no remedy for their evils but to be reconciled to God. But that cannot be done unless they repent. For God w...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 18 AND 19. Chapter 18 contains an important principle of the dealings of God, unfolded at that period. God would judge the individual according to his own con...
CAST AWAY FROM YOU ALL YOUR TRANSGRESSIONS WHEREBY YE HAVE TRANSGRESSED,.... As unprofitable and pernicious, to be abhorred and abstained from, and to be cast off, as loads and burdens upon them. Kimc...
Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? Ver. 31. _Cast away from you, &c._] And so...
_Therefore will I judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways_, &c. You complain of the injustice of my ways or proceedings; but if I judge you according to the desert of your ways,...
God's Merciful call to Repentance...
Cast away from you all your transgressions whereby ye have transgressed, the expression referring especially to the utter removal of all idols and idolatrous ways, AND MAKE YOU A NEW HEART AND A NEW S...
30-32 The Lord will judge each of the Israelites according to his ways. On this is grounded an exhortation to repent, and to make them a new heart and a new spirit. God does not command what cannot be...
Not only cease from sin, but with indignation throw it away, as a loathsome, pernicious thing, or as a burden will sink you. YOUR TRANSGRESSIONS; as God requires, so it is the property of true repenta...
Ezekiel 18:31 away H7993 (H8685) transgressions H6588 committed H6586 (H8804) get H6213 (H8798) new H2319 heart...
“Cast away from you all your transgressions, by which you have transgressed, and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. For why will you die, Oh house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the d...
Ezekiel 18:31 I. Whoever would teach as the Scriptures do, and especially whoever would teach as Christ does, must be careful to show men both sides of the awful picture beyond the grave: he must tell...
CONTENTS: Ethical instructions for Israel in captivity. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel. CONCLUSION: He who makes conscience of conforming in everything to the will of God, who makes it his business to serv...
Ezekiel 18:2. _The fathers have eaten sour_ (unripe) _grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge._ Chaldaic, the children follow them. This proverb threw the blame on their fathers, on Adam, on...
_Make you a new heart, and a new spirit._ A NEW HEART I. This is an exhortation which, in one form or another, every man needs to hear. Here is a man who has to cross a river. There is no difficulty...
_Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin._ PRESERVATIVE FROM RUIN I. The assumption of an awful fact. Iniquity induces ruin. The term “ruin” occur...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 18:1 God holds each generation accountable for its own sins. ⇐ ⇔...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 18:30 Repentance is not being urged on Jerusalem, for the preceding chapters affirm that its destruction is assured. Rather, the exiles are pressed to repent and take responsib...
(Ezekiel 18:27.) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 18:29. “Are not your ways unequal?” “They asserted (Ezekiel 18:25) that the ways of God were not right—properly, not weighed in the balance of righteousness...
EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 18:1, EZEKIEL 18:2 WHAT MEAN YE, THAT YE USE THIS PROVERB, etc.? Another and entirely different section opens, and we see at once from what it started. Ezekiel had heard from the l...
CHAPTER 18. THE RETRIBUTIVE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD. Ezekiel 18:1. _And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,_ Ezekiel 18:2. _Why do ye use this proverb upon the land of Israel, saying, The fathers...
Now there are instructions for those who have been taken to Babylon, and Ezekiel now turns and speaks to them. The word of the LORD came unto me, saying, What mean ye, that you use this proverb conce...
1 Peter 1:14; 1 Peter 1:22; 1 Peter 2:1; 1 Peter 4:2; Acts 13:46;...
Make you a new heart — Suffer me to do it in you....