George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Ezekiel 47:11
Salt, or bitumen pits. Schismatics and bad Christians, who do not live by the spirit of Christ, are meant. (Calmet)
Salt, or bitumen pits. Schismatics and bad Christians, who do not live by the spirit of Christ, are meant. (Calmet)
Verse Ezekiel 47:11. _THE MIRY PLACES_] "Point out," says _Calmet_, "the schismatics and hereties who do not live by the Spirit of Jesus Christ, but separate from his Church; and the evil Christians...
The exception, which reserves for sterility places to which the living water does not reach, probably indicates that the life and health are solely due to the stream which proceeds from beneath the th...
III. THE VISION CONCERNING THE LAND (47-48) CHAPTER 4 7 _ 1. The waters of healing from the temple (Ezekiel 47:1) _ 2. Borders of the land (Ezekiel 47:13) 3. Concerning the stranger in the land ...
EZEKIEL 47, 48. THE HOLY LAND, ITS BEAUTY, BOUNDARIES, AND DIVISIONS. Now that the Temple and its worship, which are indispensable to the welfare of the land, have been described, Ezekiel directs his...
MIRY PLACES. swamps. MARISHES. marshes. Hebrew. pools....
The river issuing from the temple. The prophet saw a stream issuing from beneath the threshold of the house, which pursued its way eastward, passing the altar on the south side and emerging into the o...
The marshes around the sea shall not be sweetened, but left as beds for digging salt. The saltness of the Dead Sea is due to the strata of salt rocks which surround it....
BUT THE MIRY PLACES, &C.— Hereby are meant, says Calmet, those wicked Christians, who dishonour the church whereof they are corrupt members. _Salt_ here signifies sterility....
III. THE FUTURE LAND 47:1-48:35 In his last vision Ezekiel observes the blessing which the people of God would enjoy in the new Temple age. In that blessed land the tribes of Israel would have eternal...
But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt. The marishes ... shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt - "marishes," marshes. The reg...
THE LIFEGIVING STREAM Ezekiel was now brought in his vision to the door of the Temple proper. Here he saw a stream of water which came from beneath the threshold somewhat to the S. of the entrance, an...
§ 2. THE ORDINANCES OF THE NEW ISRAEL (EZEKIEL 40-48) This concluding section of the book is dated in the twenty-fifth year of Ezekiel's captivity, i.e. the fourteenth year after the fall of Jerusalem...
EZEKIEL’S LAST *VISION EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 40 TO 48 _COMMENTARY: KEITH SIMONS; TRANSLATION: IAN MACKERVOY._ CHAPTER 47 THE *TEMPLE RIVER – EZEKIEL 47:1-12 V1 The man brought me back to the entran...
The problem with the Dead Sea is not its salt. Salt is a good thing. The problem is that there is no life. In the *vision, God cured that problem. But he did not remove all the salt. In the Bible, sa...
THE MARISHES THEREOF SHALL NOT BE HEALED. — The picture of the life-giving waters would be imperfect without this exception to their effects. The Dead Sea at the southern end is very shallow, and beyo...
_בִּצֹּאתָ֧יו_† וּ גְבָאָ֛יו וְ לֹ֥א יֵרָפְא֖וּ לְ...
RENEWAL AND ALLOTMENT OF THE LAND Ezekiel 47:1; Ezekiel 48:1 IN the first part of the forty-seventh chapter the visionary form of the revelation, which had been interrupted by the important series of...
Again Ezekiel was taken to the door of the house, and there beheld the wonderful symbolic river. Its source was the sanctuary. It proceeded under the threshold, and past the altar, and outward in an e...
But (i) its miry places and its marshes shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt. (i) That is, the wicked and reprobate....
Here are many similar allusions, such as were before, in reference to the Lord Jesus, and his Gospel. The trees on the bank of this river cannot be misunderstood, if we read what is here said, with wh...
_THE RIVER OF LIFE_ Ezekiel 47:1 To Ezekiel the river meant the blessings of Messiah’s reign. The last page of the Apocalypse tells of the river of water of life that proceeds from the throne of God...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 47 AND 48. The last two Chapter s do not require any lengthened remarks. The waters that issue from the sanctuary represent the life-giving power that proceed...
BUT THE MIRY PLACES THEREOF, AND THE MARSHES THEREOF,.... That is, of the sea; the waters of which were healed, by the waters of the sanctuary coming into them: but the ditches and lakes, the miry and...
But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt. Ver. 11. _But the miry places thereof and the marishes, shall not be healed._] Sensual souls are...
_But the miry places thereof, and the marshes thereof, shall not be healed_ “There shall still remain some marshes, creeks, or swamps, into which these healing waters shall not find an entrance; and t...
But the miry places thereof, the swamps formed by the natural recession of the waters, AND THE MARSHES THEREOF SHALL NOT BE HEALED; THEY SHALL BE GIVEN TO SALT, unfit for cultivation and for every liv...
THE STREAM OF LIVING WATERS...
SHALL NOT BE HEALED: Or, and that which shall not be healed...
MIRY PLACES; unsound, rotten parts, that are neither sea nor yet sound ground, a proper emblem of hypocrites. The marishes; low land, sopped with the overflowings of unhealthful waters, neither fit to...
Ezekiel 47:11 swamps H1207 marshes H1360 healed H7495 (H8735) over H5414 (H8738) salt H4417 shall be - etc....
“But its miry places and its marshes will not be healed. They will be given up to salt.” At first sight this seems to be a sign of the failure of the river. But in fact the people would not have rejoi...
CHAPTER EZEKIEL 47:1 THE RIVERS OF LIVING WATER. The first twelve verses of this chapter deal with the vision of rivers of living water flowing from the temple, beginning as a small streamlet and mult...
CONTENTS: River of the new sanctuary. Borders of the land. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel. CONCLUSION: Revelation 22:1-2; Zechariah 14:8-9. KEY WORD: River of sanctuary, Ezekiel 47:1
Ezekiel 47:16. _Hamath,_ a city commanding the passage of mount Lebanon, and the north-west boundary of the Israelites. 1 Chronicles 13:5. REFLECTIONS. The jews rejoiced more when they poured water...
_But the miry places and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt._ THE DANGER OF A FRUITLESS POSSESSION OF RELIGIOUS ADVANTAGES This vision of Ezekiel unrolled the map o...
_He measured a thousand cubits._ CURIOUS THINGS IN LIFE This chapter is a chapter of measurement. Everything is meted out, as it were, by so many cubits and inches. The voice is very dogmatic:--“This...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 47:1 The tour brings Ezekiel back into the inner court. The DOOR OF THE TEMPLE (v. Ezekiel 47:1) is that of the sanctuary itself. There begin
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 47:11 The saltiness of the Dead Sea will remain at certain points. ⇐ ⇔...
THE VISION OF THE HOLY WATERS ISSUING FROM THE TEMPLE. (Chap. 47) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 47:1. “THE HOUSE EASTWARD.” The house is the Temple itself; the waters issued from beneath the south-east...
EXPOSITION As the first part of Ezekiel's vision (Ezekiel 40-43.) dealt with the temple, or "house," and the second (Ezekiel 44-47.) with the ritual, or "worship," so the third, which beans with the p...
CHAPTER 47:1-12. VISION OF THE TEMPLE WATERS. IT is necessary to take the first part of this chapter apart from the second, which relates to a different subject, the new division of the land, and whi...
Now in chapter 47 we find this river that comes forth from this east gate. Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house; and, behold, the waters issued out from under the threshold of the...
2 Peter 2:19; Deuteronomy 29:23; Hebrews 10:26; Hebrews 6:4;...