Ezekiel 22:2
_Blood. Why dost thou cease to admonish and rebuke the people? (Worthington) --- Pronounce sentence on Jerusalem, (Haydock) for her cruelties. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Blood. Why dost thou cease to admonish and rebuke the people? (Worthington) --- Pronounce sentence on Jerusalem, (Haydock) for her cruelties. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Hath. Septuagint, "was mixed with his relations," ver. 10., &c., (Haydock) fighting against them. (Theodoret)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Sabbaths, by servile works, and by their sinful deportment._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Slanderers, hateful to all, Leviticus xix. 16., and Proverbs xi. 13. --- Mountains. Chap. xviii. 6._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Father, his widow, their mother-in-law, or one of his wives._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Increase. Chap. xviii. 18. (Calmet) --- Me. "The remembrance of God excludes all sins." (St. Jerome)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Hands, through surprise and sorrow. (Calmet) --- God wishes the sinner's salvation, Genesis vi. 6. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_In thee. I will purify thee by violent medicines. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Possess, "as an inheritance:" (Septuagint; Haydock) "I will defile:" (Aquila) "wound thee." (Symmachus) Hebrew is very different: (Calmet) "thou hast inherited in thyself," (Haydock) being no longer willing to be subject._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Dross. Hebrew, "a mixture." Septuagint, "God will purify the silver," Isaias iv. 4._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Rained upon, or watered with the instructions of the prophets, chap. xx. 46._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Conspiracy. The false prophets defend each other, (Calmet) while the priests connive at their proceedings, (Haydock) and set the example of wickedness._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Without. Septuagint, "they shall fall, seeing," &c._... [ Continue Reading ]
_None like Abraham, Moses, &c. (Calmet) --- The prayers of the just are very powerful; and God wishes them to exert themselves for sinners. (St. Jerome) (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER XXII.... [ Continue Reading ]