LIVE ... DIE - In the writings of Ezekiel there is a development of the meaning of “life” and “death.” In the holy land the sanctions of divine government were in great degree temporal; so that the pr...
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” ...
_and that doeth not_ Fairer: _and he hath not done any of these things, but even hath eaten_, &c. The things which he hath not done are those in Ezekiel 18:6 regarded as positive commandments. The wor...
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...
If he beget a son that is a robber, a shedder of blood, and that doeth the like to any one of these things, IF HE BEGET A SON THAT IS A ROBBER. The second case is that of an impious son of a pious...
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...
וְ ה֕וּא אֶת ־כָּל ־אֵ֖לֶּה לֹ֣א עָשָׂ֑ה
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...
I include all these verses under one view in reading, the better to gather also into one view the just and unalterable reasoning of the Lord upon them. Here are three cases stated, in a father, and a...
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...
AND THAT DOETH NOT ANY OF THOSE [DUTIES],.... Before mentioned, which his father did, but the reverse of them; and so the Septuagint and Arabic versions render it, "and in the way of his righteous fat...
_And that doeth not any of those [duties], but even hath eaten upon the mountains, and defiled his neighbour's wife,_ Ver. 11. _And that doth not any of these duties._] Bare omissions may undo a man....
_If he_ The righteous man before described, who transmits his human nature, but cannot transmit his graces and virtues to his son; _beget a son who is a robber_, &c. Who is guilty of any of the evil p...
and that doeth not any of those duties, or, "whereas the father was not guilty of such wickedness," BUT EVEN HATH EATEN UPON THE MOUNTAINS AND DEFILED HIS NEIGHBOR'S WIFE,...
The Principle of God's Avenging Justice...
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...
In the former verse sins which are violations of the law by a man's doing the evil which was forbidden, in the former part of this verse the sins which are omissions of good required, are mentioned. D...
Ezekiel 18:11 does H6213 (H8804) eaten H398 (H8804) mountains H2022 defiled H2930 (H8765) neighbors H7453 wife...
THE WICKED SON. The purpose of the comparison is to refute the idea that a man suffers or benefits as far as God is concerned because of his family connections. A man may naturally benefit, or otherw...
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...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 18:1 God holds each generation accountable for its own sins. ⇐ ⇔...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 18:5 Ezekiel describes three generations: a righteous father (vv. Ezekiel 18:5) and his wicked son (vv....
(Ezekiel 18:10) EXEGETICAL NOTES—Two cases are here supposed: (1). That of a righteous father who begets an unrighteous son. (2). That of a righteous son who refuses to copy the evil example of his f...
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...