Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ezekiel 15:3
A pin — Will it afford even a pin to drive into a wall or post, on which you may safely fasten any weight.
A pin — Will it afford even a pin to drive into a wall or post, on which you may safely fasten any weight.
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...
PIN. peg....
Uselessness of the wood of the vine. _to do any work_ i.e. use for any work or purpose. The words may mean, to make it into any work or article of workmanship. It has too little firmness even to be m...
SHALL WOOD BE TAKEN THEREOF— It is observable, that the wood of the vine is of no use in building, or in making any piece of furniture or domestic utensil. Bishop Lowth observes, that it is the chief...
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...
Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree, or than a branch which is among the trees of the forest? WHAT IS THE VINE TREE MORE THAN ANY TREE? What has the vine-wood to make it preeminen...
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...
הֲ יֻקַּ֤ח מִמֶּ֨נּוּ֙ עֵ֔ץ לַ עֲשֹׂ֖ות לִ
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...
_Thereon. Isaias xxii. 23. (Calmet) --- The Turkish lords have no furniture in their rooms, but hang their arms, saddles, &c., upon such pins, or on strings. (Roger. ii.)_...
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...
SHALL WOOD BE TAKEN THEREOF TO DO ANY WORK?.... The carpenter and joiner, the house or ship builder, are employed in; as to build houses of, make beams, rafters, floors, c. build ships with, make mast...
Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work? or will [men] take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon? Ver. 3. _Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work?_] No, hardly. It is good for nothing; no, n...
_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...
Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work? In building or manufacture. OR WILL MEN TAKE A PIN OF IT TO BANG ANY VESSEL THEREON? to suspend vessels used in the household....
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 there one good piece of timber in the whole vine fit for building a house, or ship, as there is in the oak, elm, or other wild forest trees? Will it furnish the husbandman or soldier, or seaman wit...
Ezekiel 15:3 wood H6086 taken H3947 (H8714) make H6213 (H8800) object H4399 make H3947 (H8799) peg...
‘And the word of Yahweh came to me saying, “Son of man, what is the vine tree more than any tree, the vine branch which is among the trees of the forest? Will wood be taken from it to make any work? O...
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,...
Jeremiah 24:8; Luke 14:34; Luke 14:35; Mark 9:50; Matthew 5:13...