Ezekiel 18:13

If he beget a son that is a robber, a shedder of blood, and that doeth the like to any one of these things, IF HE BEGET A SON THAT IS A ROBBER. The second case is that of an impious son of a pious father. His pious parentage, so far from excusing, aggravates his guilt. ROBBER - or, literally, 'a breaker,' namely, through all constraints of right. AND THAT DOETH THE LIKE TO ANY ONE OF THESE THINGS. The Hebrew [ 'aach (H251)] and the parallel (Ezekiel 18:18, "spoiled his brother by violence") require us to translate rather, 'doeth to his brother any of these things,' namely, the things which follow in Ezekiel 18:11, etc. (Maurer.)...

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. Whatever outward sufferings come upon men through the sins of others, they deserve for their own sins all they suffer; and the Lord overrules every event for the eternal good of believers. All souls are in the hand of the great Creator: he will deal with them in justice or mercy; nor will any perish for the sins of another, who is not in some sense worthy of death for his own. We all have sinned, and our souls must be lost, if God deal with us according to his holy law; but we are invited to come to Christ. If a man who had shown his faith by his works, had a wicked son, whose character and conduct were the reverse of his parent's, could it be expected he should escape the Divine vengeance...

Verse Ezekiel 18:13. _SHALL HE THEN LIVE?_] Because his father was a righteous man, shall the father's holiness be imputed to him? No! _HE SHALL SURELY DIE; HIS BLOOD SHALL BE UPON HIM._] He shall suffer for his own crimes....

LIVE ... DIE - In the writings of Ezekiel there is a development of the meaning of “life” and “death.” In the holy land the sanctions of divine government were in great degree temporal; so that the promise of “life” for “obedience,” the threatening of “death” for “disobedience,” in the Books of Moses, were regarded simply as temporal and national. In their exile this could not continue in its full extent, and the universality of the misfortune necessarily made men look deeper into the words of God. The word “soul” denotes a “person” viewed as an “individual,” possessing the “life” which God breathed into man when he became a “living soul” Genesis 2:7; i. e., it distinguishes “personality” from “nationality,” and this introduces that fresh and higher idea of “life” and “death,” which is not so much “life” and “death” in a future state, as “life” and “death” as equival

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 lips of his countrymen, and had seen its working in their hearts, the proverb with which they blunted their sense of personal responsibility. They had to bear the punishment of sins which they had not committed. The sins of the fathers were visited, as in Exodus 20:5; Exodus 34:7;...

HATH GIVEN FORTH UPON USURY, AND HATH TAKEN INCREASE,.... Contrary to the law of God; Ezekiel 18:8; SHALL HE THEN LIVE? by virtue of his father's righteousness and goodness, free from calamities, and in the quiet possession of the land of Israel, and the good things of it: HE SHALL NOT LIVE; but go into captivity, and be destitute of the good things of life he has enjoyed; and, without repentance, shall never have eternal life: HE HATH DONE ALL THESE ABOMINATIONS; before mentioned; theft, murder, idolatry, adultery, oppression of the poor, and usury, sins against both tables of the law: HE SHALL SURELY DIE; the death of affliction, or undergo temporal punishment; and not only die corporeally, but eternally too, if grace prevent not: "in dying he shall die" f; as in the Hebrew text; he shall die both the first and

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” (Ezekiel 18:4). But the conditions to have life and to be just cannot be fulfilled by sinful man; nor is In these verses “eternal life” in view; these are not conditions to secure “eternal life,” but to escape physical death in the announced judgment. The conditions which bring death are given in Ezekiel 18:10. The son does not die for his father's sins, as th

HIS BLOOD SHALL BE UPON HIM. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 20:9; Leviticus 20:11; Leviticus 20:12; Leviticus 20:13; Leviticus 20:16; Leviticus 20:27). App-92....

_shall surely die_ The formula common in the law, "shall surely be put to death," Leviticus 20:11; Exodus 21:15; Exodus 22:18. _his blood … upon him_ He shall suffer the death due to his own deeds, ch. Ezekiel 33:4; Lev 20:9; 2 Samuel 1:16. Ezekiel 18:14. Third link in the chain of illustration: this unrighteous man on the other hand begets a son who, seeing his father's iniquities, is deterred by them and lives righteously. This son shall not die f

HIS BLOOD SHALL BE UPON HIM— "He hath drawn down upon himself the utmost distress by his sin; which can be imputed to no other than himself." The Chaldee renders it, _He is condemned to die._...