Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible
Ezekiel 18:19
Yet say ye, &c.— Do ye say, why doth the son not bear the iniquity of his father?—Because the son doeth that, &c. Therefore he shall surety live. Houbigant.
Yet say ye, &c.— Do ye say, why doth the son not bear the iniquity of his father?—Because the son doeth that, &c. Therefore he shall surety live. Houbigant.
WHY?... - Rather, “Why doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father?”...
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” ...
_Yet say ye, Why?_ Rather: AND YE SAY, WHEREFORE DOTH NOT THE SON BEAR …? The prophet refers to the current view, and supposes it quoted as an objection to his principle. So long as the idea prevailed...
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...
Yet say ye, Why? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son hath done that which is lawful and right, and hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live. YE...
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...
WHY? DOTH NOT THE SON BEAR? — It would be clearer to read this as a single question, “Why doth not the son, &c?_”_ It is the question proposed by the people in objection to what has been declared. To...
וַ אֲמַרְתֶּ֕ם מַדֻּ֛עַ לֹא ־נָשָׂ֥א הַ בֵּ֖ן
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 REVERSAL OF THE DIVINE JUDGMENT Ezekiel 18:14-32 The Jews of Ezekiel's day asserted that God's dealings with their nation were not just, because they were suffering, not for their own sins, but f...
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...
YET SAY YE, WHY?.... Why do you say so? why do you go on to assert that which is not fact, or which is contrary to fact, contrary to what we feel and experience every day, to say that children are not...
Yet say ye, Why? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son hath done that which is lawful and right, [and] hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live. Ve...
_Yet say ye, Why? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father?_ God here puts into the prophet's mouth what he knew the Jews would object (at least in their minds) to the foregoing declarations,...
The Principle of God's Avenging Justice...
Yet say ye, in accordance with the ancient false proverb which had been in circulation, WHY? DOTH NOT THE SON BEAR THE INIQUITY OF THE FATHER? That is, Would not that be the right and the just thing?...
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...
Notwithstanding this method of the Divine justice, which renders to every one his own work, and gives to every one the fruit of his own doings, ye, proud, quarrelling, self-justifying debauchees, idol...
Ezekiel 18:19 say H559 (H8804) son H1121 bear H5375 (H8804) guilt H5771 father H1 son H1121 done...
“When the son has done what is lawful and right, and has kept all my statutes, and has done them, he will surely live. The person who sins, he will die. The son will not bear the iniquity of the fathe...
GOD ANSWERS THE CHARGE OF UNFAIRNESS. It is worthy of note that the people felt that God was being unfair precisely for the opposite reason than many of us would, bringing out how important, attitude...
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 18:19 WHY SHOULD NOT THE SON SUFFER FOR THE INIQUITY OF THE FATHER? Ezekiel anticipates his audience clinging to their traditional understanding, which is summarized in the now...
(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...
2 Kings 23:26; 2 Kings 24:3; 2 Kings 24:4; Deuteronomy 5:9; Exodus 20:5