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Verse Ezekiel 18:24. _WHEN THE RIGHTEOUS TURNETH AWAY FROM HIS_
_RIGHTEOUSNESS_] Here is the _second_ case. Can a man who was once
holy and pure, fall away so as to perish everlastingly? YES. For God...
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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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RIGHTEOUSNESS. So Hebrew text; but margin, with scone codices and one
early printed edition, read plural. "none of his righteous acts The
Hebrew verb is plural
TRESPASS. TRESPASSED. Hebrew. _ma' al._...
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Although it would have sufficed for the prophet's purpose to assure
the repentant sinner of God's forgiveness, he has a certain
theoretical interest in the principle which he is insisting on which
mak...
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B. The Potential of Personal Repentance 18:21-32
TRANSLATION
(21) But if the wicked one turns from all his sins which he has done,
and keeps all My statutes, and deals justly and righteously, he shal...
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But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed,
and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he
shall surely live, he shall not die.
BUT IF THE WICKED SHA...
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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...
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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....
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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
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In this chapter, the *Lord explains that each person...
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וּ בְ שׁ֨וּב צַדִּ֤יק מִ צִּדְקָתֹו֙
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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...
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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...
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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...
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But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and
committeth iniquity, [and] doeth according to all the abominations
that the wicked [man] doeth, shall he live? All his (g) righteousness...
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When the Lord puts the question, Have I any pleasure in the death of
the wicked, and not that he should return from his ways and live? We
cannot suppose that the sense is, the Lord hath no pleasure in...
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As in the last lecture the Prophet offered to sinners a sure hope of
pardon if they heartily repented, and promised that God would be
propitious to them as soon as they shall seek reconciliation with...
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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...
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BUT WHEN THE RIGHTEOUS TURNETH AWAY FROM HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS,.... This
is to be understood, not of a truly righteous man; for no man can be
so denominated from his own righteousness; but from the righte...
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But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and
committeth iniquity, [and] doeth according to all the abominations
that the wicked [man] doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness tha...
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_But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness,_ &c.
“The question here,” say some commentators, “is not whether
truly righteous men ever do thus apostatize.” No? Surely it is the
questio...
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But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness and
committeth iniquity, in the foolish notion that he may do so with
impunity, since his good record will serve to excuse him, AND DOETH
ACC...
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God's Merciful call to Repentance...
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21-29 The wicked man would be saved, if he turned from his evil ways.
The true penitent is a true believer. None of his former
transgressions shall be mentioned unto him, but in the righteousness
whi...
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After the stating the equity of God's ways in his dealings with
parents and children, and his mercy in dealing with sinners that
return according to his own promise, he proceeds to vindicate the
equit...
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Ezekiel 18:24 righteous H6662 away H7725 (H8800) righteousness H6666
commits H6213 (H8804) iniquity H5766 does H6213
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“But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and
commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations which the
wicked man does. Shall he live? None of his righteous deeds which...
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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...
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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...
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_When the righteous turneth away from his righteousness._
THE EVIL OF APOSTASY
1. There is a righteousness which men may turn from. There is an
opinionative righteousness (Luke 18:9; Matthew 23:28);...
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EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 18:1 God holds each generation accountable
for its own sins.
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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...
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EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 18:20 THE SOUL WHO SINS SHALL DIE. Verses
Ezekiel 18:21 explain this teaching in what might seem a surprising
way. Verses...
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(Ezekiel 18:21.)
EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The ways of life and death are here for all set
forth. A man’s own sins even, provided they are forsaken, will not
exclude him from salvation. “The proof that every...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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1 John 2:19; 1 John 5:16; 1 Samuel 15:11; 2 Chronicles 24:17;...