Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Ezekiel 15:4
When for its barrenness it is cut down, it is fit only to be burnt. Nor is it a choice fuel neither, a little branch of a tree of the forest is better, and affords more fuel.
When for its barrenness it is cut down, it is fit only to be burnt. Nor is it a choice fuel neither, a little branch of a tree of the forest is better, and affords more fuel.
Verse Ezekiel 15:4. _THE FIRE DEVOURETH BOTH THE ENDS OF IT, AND THE MIDST_ _OF IT IS BURNED._] Judea is like a vine branch thrown into the fire, which seizes on _both the ends_, and _scorches the mid...
BEHOLD, IT IS CAST INTO THE FIRE - The wood is in itself useless for any purpose; but what if it have been cast into the fire, and half burned, what of it then?...
Ezekiel 15:1. This is the first of three parables to demonstrate still further the delusion of their false hope that deliverance would come. The vine is a type of Israel Psalms 80:8; Isaiah 5:1, and...
EZEKIEL 15. THE USELESS VINE (JERUSALEM) IS DOOMED TO DESTRUCTION. We have seen some of the reasons why the illusion of the inviolability of Jerusalem was so hard to slay (chs. 12f.). Here we meet wit...
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos_. App-8. CAST INTO THE FIRE. Compare John 15:6. IS IT MEET. ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-8....
A hypothetical sentence: Behold, when it hath been cast into the fire for fuel, when the fire hath devoured both the ends of it, and the midst of it is charred, will it be meet for any work? This part...
THE FIRE DEVOURETH, &C.— A very apt representation of the state of Judea, when both its extremities were consumed by the ravages of the destroyer; and the middle of it, where the capital city stood, w...
CHAPTER EIGHT PARABLES AND PICTURES 15:1-17:24 The justification of God's judgment against Judah continues in Chapter s 15-17, but the nature of the defense changes. Here Ezekiel employs parables or...
Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire devoureth both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned. Is it meet for any work? BEHOLD, IT IS CAST INTO THE FIRE - (, "If a man abide not...
15:4 burned; (c-24) Or 'charred;' 'parched,' Psalms 69:3 ....
EZEKIEL'S PARABLE OF THE VINE Jerusalem and Israel are compared elsewhere in Scripture to a cultivated vine, bearing or expected to bear fruit. Ezekiel's similitude, however, is that of the wild vine...
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 15 A *VINE WITHOUT FRUIT – EZEKIEL 15:1-8 V1 The *LOR
XV. This short chapter contains a single simile and its application, designed to show that Israel, having failed to fulfil the purpose for which they had been chosen, were worthless, and could have no...
הִנֵּ֥ה לָ † אֵ֖שׁ נִתַּ֣ן לְ אָכְלָ֑ה...
This final word on the results of reprobation leads naturally to the part of the prophecy dealing with the reason thereof. This reason is first set forth under two general figures; second, in the form...
_Ashes. It is not even solid enough for fuel. (Calmet) --- When a faggot is consumed in the middle, the ends are also put into the fire; so not one shall escape who dies out of the Church. (Worthingto...
The figure of a vine-tree is most happily chosen to describe what the Lord meant to teach the Prophet concerning Jerusalem. The vine in its flourishing state is the most luxuriant and prolific perhaps...
Chapter 15 shews that the vine-utterly useless if it bore no fruit-was fit only for fuel, and to be consumed. Thus should it be with the inhabitants of Jerusalem-a striking picture of this destruction...
BEHOLD, IT IS CAST INTO THE FIRE FOR FUEL, That is; a vine tree when cut down, or a branch when cut off, it is good for nothing else; and that is the use it is generally put to; see John 15:6; and thi...
Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire devoureth both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned. Is it meet for [any] work? Ver. 4. _Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel._] But...
_What is the vine more than any tree?_ The house of Israel is often compared to a vine, which when fruitful is very profitable and valuable, but when barren is very worthless and contemptible. Of this...
Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel, that being about the only purpose which it serves; THE FIRE DEVOURETH BOTH THE ENDS OF IT, consuming them entirely, AND THE MIDST OF IT IS BURNED, scorched,...
THE VINE-TREE FIT FOR BURNING ONLY. As little as the Lord, for the sake of a handful of righteous people, will spare Jerusalem, so little can a preference of Israel before other nations be alleged, as...
IS IT MEET: _ Heb._ will it prosper?...
Ezekiel 15:4 thrown H5414 (H8738) fire H784 fuel H402 fire H784 devours H398 (H8804) both H8147 ends...
“Behold it is cast into the fire for fuel. The fire has devoured both the ends of it, and the middle of it is burned. Is it profitable for any work?” In fact its only other use is as fuel, and it is n...
CONTENTS: Vision of the burning vine. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel. CONCLUSION: Those who set their faces against God to contradict His Word and defeat His purposes will find His face sat against them t...
REFLECTIONS. This chapter follows in connection with the preseding, and demonstrates the failure of the various methods of providence to bring the jews back to the covenant of God; and comes to the ul...
_What is the vine tree more than any tree._ THE WORTHLESS VINE DOOMED FOR THE FIRE Founding on old similitudes, the prophet assumes that Israel is the vine, and compares it as a tree or as wood with...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 15:1 Comparing Israel to a vine is a common OT theme (e.g., Psalms 80:8; Jeremiah 2:21). (O
ISRAEL COMPARED TO THE USELESS WOOD OF A WILD VINE (Chap. 15) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—In the last chapter the prophet had announced that God would not spare Jerusalem for the sake of the few righteous there...
EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 15:2 WHAT IS THE VINE TREE, etc.? The prophet's mind had apparently been dwelling, after the close of his previous utterance, on the imagery of earlier writers, in which Israel had...
CHAPTER 15. THE GUILT AND CONDEMNATION OF ISRAEL PARABOLICALLY REPRESENTED. Ezekiel 15:1. _And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,_ Ezekiel 15:2. Son of man, what is the vine-tree more than any...
Now, in chapter 15: The word of the LORD came unto me saying, Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree (Ezekiel 15:1-2), Now you remember God said concerning the nation Israel in Isaiah,...
Amos 4:11; Hebrews 12:29; Hebrews 6:8; Isaiah 1:31; Isaiah 27:11;...
For fuel — When for its barrenness it is cut down, it is fit only to burn....