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 truth in this, the proverb was used in a false and mischievous sense. It led the present generation t... [ Continue Reading ]
THE FATHERS, etc.] The same proverb is quoted and refuted in Jeremiah 31:29; Jeremiah 31:30.... [ Continue Reading ]
ALL SOULS ARE MINE] God deals directly with every one, and not with the son through the father. IT SHALL DIE] 'Die' and 'live' are used in the sense explained under Ezekiel 3:18.... [ Continue Reading ]
EATEN UPON THE MOUNTAINS] shared in an idolatrous meal at a high place.... [ Continue Reading ]
RESTORED.. HIS PLEDGE] see Exodus 22:6; Deuteronomy 24:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
MENTIONED UNTO] RV 'remembered against': so in Ezekiel 18:24.... [ Continue Reading ]
Ezekiel does not raise the question whether a truly righteous man could thus fall away. He assumes that a man's final conduct expresses his real and final character.... [ Continue Reading ]