George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Ezekiel 18:4
Mine. He insinuates the vocation of the Gentiles and the general redemption. All will be treated according to their works. (Calmet)
Mine. He insinuates the vocation of the Gentiles and the general redemption. All will be treated according to their works. (Calmet)
Verse Ezekiel 18:4. _ALL SOULS ARE MINE_] Equally so; I am the Father of the spirits of all flesh, and shall deal _impartially_ with the whole. _THE SOUL THAT SINNETH, IT SHALL DIE._] None shall _di...
ALL SOULS ARE MINE - Man is not simply to ascribe his existence to earthly parents, but to acknowledge as his Father Him who created man in His own image, and who gave and gives him the spirit of life...
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” ...
EZEKIEL 18. THE PRINCIPLE OF RETRIBUTION. From many points of view the imminent doom has been abundantly justified. But on whom will it fall? on the innocent and guilty alike? This chapter proclaims t...
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ App-6. SOULS. persons. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13. SINNETH. Descendants were not punished for the sins of their ancestors, unless _they_ persevered in their ance...
_all souls are mine_ i.e. every individual soul stands in immediate relation to God; Numbers 16:22, "O God, God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with all the cong...
THE SOUL THAT SINNETH, IT SHALL DIE— That is, "all shall be treated equally and without any respect of persons. God will punish or reward according to the good or evil which every one shall have done....
CHAPTER NINE DOCTRINES AND DIRGES 18:1-19:14 In Chapter s 18 and 19 Ezekiel brings to a close the long section of his book which began in chapter 12. The prophet's purpose in these eight Chapter s ha...
Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die. ALL SOULS ARE MINE - therefore I can deal with all, being my own cre...
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...
ALL SOULS ARE MINE] God deals directly with every one, and not with the son through the father. IT SHALL DIE] 'Die' and 'live' are used in the sense explained under Ezekiel 3:18....
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...
ALL SOULS ARE MINE. — This is the basis of the subsequent teaching. Since all alike belong to God and are absolutely in His power. He has no occasion to punish one lest another should escape; and agai...
הֵ֤ן כָּל ־הַ נְּפָשֹׁות֙ לִ֣י הֵ֔נָּה כְּ
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 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...
It should seem by the scope of reasoning the Lord is pleased to adopt in this chapter, that the proverb here used was an indirect reflection upon God. It was probably the scoffer's comment upon the se...
_THE CURE FOR FATALISM_ ‘All souls are Mine.’ Ezekiel 18:4 I. HOW MAGNIFICENT THE ATTRIBUTE HERE ASSERTED!—Seven or eight hundred souls are here at this moment inside these bodies. The comprehensio...
We now see why an oath is interposed, while he pronounces that he will take care that the Jews should not ridicule any longer _Behold, _says he_, all souls are mine; as the sole of the son so the soul...
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...
BEHOLD, ALL SOULS ARE MINE,.... By creation; they being the immediate produce of his power; hence he is called "the Father of spirits", Hebrews 12:9, or the souls of men; these he has an apparent righ...
Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die. Ver. 4. _Behold all souls are mine._] So that to show my sovereignty I...
_Behold, all souls are mine_ As they are all equally my creatures, and in my power, so my dealings with them shall be without prejudice or partiality. _The soul that sinneth, it shall die_ The very sa...
THE PARABLE OF THE SOUR GRAPES...
Behold, so the Lord says in stating the theme for His further discussion of the principle of His righteousness, ALL SOULS ARE MINE, they are all equally His, as Creator of the universe, as Father of a...
1-20 The soul that sinneth it shall die. As to eternity, every man was, is, and will be dealt with, as his conduct shows him to have been under the old covenant of works, or the new covenant of grace...
There can be no colour of partial judgment in the proceedings of God, who is equally God to all; who hath as great interest in the son as in the father, and as kindly would deal with the son as with t...
Ezekiel 18:4 souls H5315 soul H5315 father H1 soul H5315 son H1121 soul H5315 sins H2398 (H8802) die...
“Behold all lives are mine. As the life of the father, so also the life of the son is mine. The one who sins, he will die.” The use of the word ‘soul' for nephesh in modern translations is misleading....
Ezekiel 18:4 I. Every living soul is, in a sense, the subject, the sharer, of the privileges, the attributes of God. (1) There is, without contradiction, the privilege of life. Better than silent ston...
Ezekiel 18:1 This chapter helps us to clear up a puzzle which has tormented the minds of men in all ages whenever they have thought of God, and of whether God meant them well or meant them ill. For al...
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...
_Behold, all souls are Mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is Mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die._ THE GOSPEL OF THE EXILE INCARNATE IN EZEKIEL (with Ezekiel 36:25; Ez...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 18:1 God holds each generation accountable for its own sins. ⇐ ⇔...
THE EQUITY OF THE DIVINE JUSTICE (chap. 18) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The judgments announced in chaps. 8, 11, were intended to bring Israel to repentance. But this salutary purpose was frustrated by the mann...
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...
Ezekiel 18:20; Galatians 3:10; Galatians 3:22; Hebrews 12:9;...
Behold — There can be no colour of partial judgment in the proceedings of God, who is equally God to all. All souls — All persons. The soul — The person, whether father or son, shall die, shall bear h...