Ezekiel 18:17

Now, lo, if he beget a son, that seeth all his father's sins which he hath done, and considereth, and doeth not such like, NOW, LO, IF HE BEGOT A SON, THAT SEETH ALL HIS FATHER'S SINS ... AND DOETH NOT SUCH LIKE. The third case: a son who walks not in the steps of an unrighteous father, but in the ways of God; e.g., Josiah, the pious son of guilty Amon; Hezekiah, of Ahaz (2 Kings 16:1; 2 Kings 18:1; 2 Kings 21:1; 2 Kings 22:1). SEETH ... AND CONSIDERETH. The same Hebrew [ raa'ah (H7200...

Now at last he concludes: _he shall not die through his father’s iniquity; he shall surely live. _He does not repeat that this is just, yet we must understand it so; but he stops at the immediate effect, since God’s blessing awaits all the just, as Isaiah says surely there is a reward to the just, (Isaiah 3:10;) and the Prophet exclaims as if it were believed with difficulty: for, since we see all things revolving promiscuously in the world, we directly imagine either that God is at rest in heaven, or that chance governs all things here on earth. But we must strive against this perverse supposition, and determine, as Isaiah teaches, that there is a reward for the just. The Prophet now expresses this, while a difficult question arises from the passage; for he says _that he is just who has kept the law, _and so God will bestow a recompense upon. him: hence these two things are connected to...

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 18:17. _HE SHALL NOT DIE FOR THE INIQUITY OF HIS FATHER_] He shall no more be affected by his father's _crimes_, than his father was _benefited_ by his _grandfather's righteousness_....

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;...

[THAT] HATH TAKEN OFF HIS HAND FROM THE POOR,.... When he perceived it lay heavy upon him, withdrew it from hurting him, and forbore to do it when it was in his power, and perhaps eased him of the hardships his father had laid upon him; which was very kind and humane: [THAT] HATH NOT RECEIVED USURY NOR INCREASE; Ezekiel 18:8; HATH EXECUTED MY JUDGMENTS, HATH WALKED IN MY STATUTES; had not only negative, but positive holiness: not only abstained from things sinful, but did that which was just and right, both with respect to God and man; observed the worship of God, and did justice to mankind: HE SHALL NOT DIE FOR THE INIQUITY OF HIS FATHER; or be punished for his father's sins, with sword, famine, pestilence, or captivity; shall not die a corporeal death, and much less eternal death, on that account: he shall surely li

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

THE POOR. the oppressed. The Septuagint reads "injustice", as in Ezekiel 18:8. INIQUITY. Hebrew. _'avah._ App-44. Not the same word as in or. Eze 8:24, Eze 8:26....

_taken off his hand_ withdrawn his hand so as not to injure or oppress the poor. LXX. reads: from iniquity, but cf. ch. Ezekiel 20:22....

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 has been to reinforce the announcement of Jerusalem's judgment by refuting the erroneous bases of the exile's confidence which led them to believe that Jerusalem could never be destroyed. In these Chapter s Ezekiel deals with seven false attitudes which are in some cases explicitly stated and in other cases implied in the text. The chart below will serve as a review of the argumentation found in Chapter s 12-19. REVIEW OF CHAPTER S 12-19 Popular Rationalization Prophetic Response Prophecies of doom have failed to materialize God loves us too much to destroy us (Ezekiel 12:22) Judgments against Judah belong to some distant future age No cause for