Ezekiel 22:1
_Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,_ Ver. 1. _Moreover the word._] See on Ezekiel 18:1 .... [ Continue Reading ]
_Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,_ Ver. 1. _Moreover the word._] See on Ezekiel 18:1 .... [ Continue Reading ]
Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations. Ver. 2. _Wilt thou judge?_] Or, Plead for, or excuse? See Ezekiel 20:4 . _ The bloody city._] The saints' slaughter house.... [ Continue Reading ]
Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD, The city sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself. Ver. 3. _In the midst of it._] _Publiae et impune._ Against herself.] As a sinner against her own soul.... [ Continue Reading ]
Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come [even] unto thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries. Ver. 4. _Tho... [ Continue Reading ]
Ezekiel 22:5 [Those that be] near, and [those that be] far from thee, shall mock thee, [which art] infamous [and] much vexed. Ver. 5. _Shall mock thee, which are infamous._] This was forethreatened. Deu 28:37 Our natures are most impatient of reproach; for there is none so mean but thinks himself w... [ Continue Reading ]
Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood. Ver. 6. _Behold the princes of Israel._] Here beginneth the black bill or bed roll. And as in a fish corruption beginneth at the head, so in a nation at the rulers.... [ Continue Reading ]
In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow. Ver. 7. _In thee have they set light by father and mother._] Whom very heathens honoured as their θεοι εφεστιαι, household go... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths._ Ver. 8. _Thou hast despised mine holy things._] These are all foretokens of a perishing people. _Emphasin habet quod dicit sancta mea, Sabbata mea._ Shall that which hath the impress of God upon it be slighted, as his sabbaths, s... [ Continue Reading ]
In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness. Ver. 9. _In thee are men that carry tales._] Heb., Men of slanders. Exo 23:1 Lev 18:16 Whisperers, backbiters, tale bearers - pedlars, the Hebrew word, signifieth such... [ Continue Reading ]
In thee have they discovered their fathers' nakedness: in thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution. Ver. 10. In thee have they discovered their father's nakedness,] _i.e., _ Carnally known their father's wives or concubines, Reuben-like. See 1 Corinthians 5:1. _See Trapp on "_ 1C... [ Continue Reading ]
And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father's daughter. Ver. 11. _And one hath committed._] So the poet - “ _Hic thalamum invasit natae, vetitosque Hymenaeos,_ Ausi omnes... [ Continue Reading ]
In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD. Ver. 12. _Thou hast taken usury and increase._] _Usura quasi propter usum rei,_ saith one, and _foenus quasi funu... [ Continue Reading ]
_Behold, therefore I have smitten mine hand at thy dishonest gain which thou hast made, and at thy blood which hath been in the midst of thee._ Ver. 13. _I have smitten my hand._] In token of utmost indignation, as Numbers 24:10 . _ At thy dishonest gain which thou hast made._] The Jewish doctors o... [ Continue Reading ]
_Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with thee? I the LORD have spoken [it], and will do [it]._ Ver. 14. _Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong?_] _Interrogatio continens latentem ironiam_ - _q.d., _ _Misella superbula, erisne ferendo m... [ Continue Reading ]
And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee. Ver. 15. _I will scatter thee._] Deuteronomy 4:27; Deuteronomy 28:25; Deuteronomy 28:64 . _ And will consume thy filthiness._] By thy captivity and misery I will refine and r... [ Continue Reading ]
And thou shalt take thine inheritance in thyself in the sight of the heathen, and thou shalt know that I [am] the LORD. Ver. 16. _And thou shalt take thine inheritance in thyself,_] _q.d., _ I will abandon thee. Or, Thou shall be profaned and polluted. _ And thou shalt know that I am the Lord._] T... [ Continue Reading ]
And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Ver. 17. _And the word of the Lord_] See Ezekiel 18:1 .... [ Continue Reading ]
Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they [are] brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are [even] the dross of silver. Ver. 18. _The house of Israel is to me become dross._] _Recrementum argenti; _ offal stuff. Silver they were once, but now noth... [ Continue Reading ]
_Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye are all become dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem._ Ver. 19. _I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem._] _Velut catinum fusorium,_ as into a red hot furnace, or fiery crucible. Eze 24:10... [ Continue Reading ]
Ezekiel 22:20 [As] they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt [it]; so will I gather [you] in mine anger and in my fury, and I will leave [you there], and melt you. Ver. 20. _As they gather silver and brass._] The rig... [ Continue Reading ]
Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of my wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst thereof. Ver. 21. _And ye shall be melted in the midst thereof._] As in a fiery furnace. Such was anciently Egypt; Deu 4:20 afterwards Babylon; and in the year 1453, Constantinople, where cruelly... [ Continue Reading ]
As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye be melted in the midst thereof; and ye shall know that I the LORD have poured out my fury upon you. Ver. 22. _As silver is melted._] The same again for better fastening. _Tam diligenter de his malis concionatus est, ut conciones eius vix... [ Continue Reading ]
And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Ver. 23. _And the word._] See Ezekiel 18:1 .... [ Continue Reading ]
Son of man, say unto her, Thou [art] the land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation. Ver. 24. _Thou art the land that is not cleansed._] From thy filthiness, and the fire of my judgments. _ Nor rained upon._] _Non compluta; _ no mercy shown thee, no good done upon thee by... [ Continue Reading ]
Ezekiel 22:25 [There is] a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof. Ver. 25. _There is a conspiracy of her prophets._] They... [ Continue Reading ]
Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed [difference] between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. Ver. 26. _Her priests have... [ Continue Reading ]
_Her princes in the midst thereof [are] like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, [and] to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain._ Ver. 27. _Her princes in the midst thereof._] _Lupis ferociores et voraciores erant._ There was in this state, as physicians say there is in some diseases, _corrupti... [ Continue Reading ]
And her prophets have daubed them with untempered [morter], seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken. Ver. 28. _And her prophets have daubed them._] _Similes iis qui parietem incrustant luto friabili et solubili._ See Ezekiel 13:4, &... [ Continue Reading ]
The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully. Ver. 29. _The people of the land have used oppression._] Or, Deceit. _Eadem hodie fiunt: charitas refrixit; omnia iniuriis, calumniis, rapinis ple... [ Continue Reading ]
_And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none._ Ver. 30. _And I sought for a man among them,_] _i.e., _ A competent company of holy men, as once at Sodom; Gen 18:23-32 at Jerusalem. Jer... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD. Ver. 31. _I have consumed them with the fire._] Since thou wouldst not be cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignatio... [ Continue Reading ]