Verse Ezekiel 18:5. _IF A MAN BE JUST, AND DO THAT WHICH IS LAWFUL AND_ _RIGHT_] If he be _just_ or _holy_ within, and do what is according to _law_ and _equity_. What is meant by this, is immediately...
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” ...
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Developement of the principle in three instances, chosen so as to exhibit it in its most paradoxical form 5 9. The man that is righteous shall live. First, his righteousness is defined generally as do...
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...
But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right, BUT IF A MAN BE JUST. Here begins the illustration of God's impartiality in a series of supposed cases: Firstly, from Ezekiel 18:5, the...
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...
IF A MAN BE JUST. — At the opening and close of the statement in regard to the righteous man (Ezekiel 18:5; Ezekiel 18:9), he is described in general and comprehensive terms; while in the intermediate...
וְ אִ֖ישׁ כִּי ־יִהְיֶ֣ה צַדִּ֑יק וְ עָשָׂ֥ה
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...
Here the Prophet confirms his former teaching by examples. For he first says, if any one faithfully keep the law, he shall prosper, since God will repay the reward of justice: afterwards he adds, if t...
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...
BUT IF A MAN BE JUST,.... Not legally, as to be wholly free from sin, for there is no such just man, Ecclesiastes 7:20; but evangelically, through the imputation of the righteousness of Christ unto hi...
But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right, Ver. 5. _But if a man be just._] Keep faith and a good conscience; do good acts, and have good aims; do all as well as any, not this or th...
_If a man be just_ Or _righteous_, rather, as the word צדיק properly signifies; for it is not mere honesty, but true religion that is intended. _And hath not eaten upon the mountains_ Feasted on the s...
But if a man be just, righteous in all his doing, AND DO THAT WHICH IS LAWFUL AND RIGHT, literally, "judgment and righteousness," exercising himself in the demands of the Law of God,...
The Principle of God's Avenging Justice...
LAWFUL AND RIGHT: _ Heb._ judgment and 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...
So far is God from perverse and froward partiality in his judgments, that none ever had cause to complain hereof. IF A MAN, without respect of persons, every one, whoever he be, be just; faultless and...
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THE RIGHTEOUS FATHER. “But if a man is just and does what is lawful and right, and has not eaten on the mountains, nor has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, nor has defiled his n...
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 18:5.) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—True righteousness is described as the fulfilment of the commandments of God. Through such righteousness the righteous shall live. Ezekiel 18:5. “THAT WHICH IS LAWFU...
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...
1 John 2:29; 1 John 2:3; 1 John 3:7; 1 John 5:2; Ezekiel 33:14;...