Ezekiel 5:1
Take — Thus foretel the mourning, reproach, and deformity that are coming, for all this is signified by shaving the head and beard.... [ Continue Reading ]
Take — Thus foretel the mourning, reproach, and deformity that are coming, for all this is signified by shaving the head and beard.... [ Continue Reading ]
A third part — Described on the tile, Ezekiel 4:1, a type of what should be done in Jerusalem. The days — When the three hundred and ninety days of thy lying against the portrayed city shall be ended. With a knife — To signify them that fall by the sword. Scatter — To typify them that fell to the Ch... [ Continue Reading ]
Take — Of the last third. Bind — As men tied up in the skirt of their garment what they would not lose: to signify the small remnant.... [ Continue Reading ]
Of them — Out of that little remnant. In the fire — For their sin against God, their discontents at their state, and conspiracies against their governor, another fire shall break out which shall devour the most, and be near consuming all the houses of Israel.... [ Continue Reading ]
This is Jerusalem — This portrayed city, is typically Jerusalem. The midst — Jerusalem was set in the midst of the nations, to be as the heart in the body, to invigorate the dead world with a divine life, as well as to enlighten the dark world with a divine light.... [ Continue Reading ]
More — More than the heathen.... [ Continue Reading ]
Multiplied — In idols, superstitions, and wickedness. Neither — You have exceeded them in superstition and idolatry, and fallen short of them in moral virtues.... [ Continue Reading ]
Not done — Though the old world perished by water, and Sodom by fire, yet neither one or other was so lingering a death.... [ Continue Reading ]
Scatter — This was verified when they were fetched away, who were left at the departure of the besiegers, and when the very small remnant with Johanan fled into Egypt.... [ Continue Reading ]
Sanctuary — My temple. Detestable things — Thy idols.... [ Continue Reading ]
Comforted — In executing my vengeance. In my zeal — For my own glory.... [ Continue Reading ]
Taunt — A very proverb among them. Instruction — Sinners shall learn by thy miseries, what they may expect from me.... [ Continue Reading ]
Bereave thee — Of your children, friends, and your own life. Pestilence and blood — Thy land shall be the common road for pestilence and blood. Tho' this prophecy was to be accomplished presently, in the destruction of Jerusalem by the Chaldeans; yet it may well be supposed to look forward, to the f... [ Continue Reading ]