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Verse Ezekiel 18:31. _CAST AWAY_] With a holy violence, dash away
every transgression and incentive to it.
_MAKE YOU A NEW HEART_] Call upon God for it, and he will give it:
for as sure as you _earn...
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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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WHEREBY, &c. The. Septuagint reads "which ye have committed against
Me".
HEART. SPIRIT. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), App-6,
for all that is of the spirit, and not of the flesh. Compa...
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Exhortation to repentance founded on the principle that God will deal
with every man according to the condition in which he is found....
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_a new heart_ Cf. ch. Ezekiel 11:19; Ezekiel 36:26; Jeremiah 4:4;
Jeremiah 24:7;...
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MAKE YOU A NEW HEART AND A NEW SPIRIT— The prophets often exhort the
Jews to an inward purity and holiness, that they might not rely upon
an outward legal righteousness, and a scrupulous exactness in...
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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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Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to
his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn yourselves from all
your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.
THE...
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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: ‘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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הַשְׁלִ֣יכוּ מֵ עֲלֵיכֶ֗ם אֶת ־כָּל
־פִּשְׁעֵיכֶם֙...
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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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Cast away from you all your transgressions, by which ye have
transgressed; and make (i) you a new heart and a new spirit: for why
will ye die, O house of Israel?
(i) He shows that man cannot forsake...
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_New. We can do no good of ourselves: but we are admonished of our
free-will, that we may do what we can, and ask for grace. (Council of
Trent, Session vi. 5, 11.) (James i. 5., and 2 Corinthians iii....
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Here, in conclusion, is a most striking and just appeal from the Lord,
followed up with the strongest assurance of mercy. But here again, as
before, the expression concerning the Lord's pleasure in th...
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Ezekiel again exhorts the people to leave off complaining, and to
acknowledge that there is no remedy for their evils but to be
reconciled to God. But that cannot be done unless they repent. For God
w...
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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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CAST AWAY FROM YOU ALL YOUR TRANSGRESSIONS WHEREBY YE HAVE
TRANSGRESSED,.... As unprofitable and pernicious, to be abhorred and
abstained from, and to be cast off, as loads and burdens upon them.
Kimc...
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Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have
transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will
ye die, O house of Israel?
Ver. 31. _Cast away from you, &c._] And so...
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_Therefore will I judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to
his ways_, &c. You complain of the injustice of my ways or
proceedings; but if I judge you according to the desert of your ways,...
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30-32 The Lord will judge each of the Israelites according to his
ways. On this is grounded an exhortation to repent, and to make them a
new heart and a new spirit. God does not command what cannot be...
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Not only cease from sin, but with indignation throw it away, as a
loathsome, pernicious thing, or as a burden will sink you. YOUR
TRANSGRESSIONS; as God requires, so it is the property of true
repenta...
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Ezekiel 18:31 away H7993 (H8685) transgressions H6588 committed H6586
(H8804) get H6213 (H8798) new H2319 heart...
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“Cast away from you all your transgressions, by which you have
transgressed, and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. For
why will you die, Oh house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the
d...
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Ezekiel 18:31
I. Whoever would teach as the Scriptures do, and especially whoever
would teach as Christ does, must be careful to show men both sides of
the awful picture beyond the grave: he must tell...
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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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_Make you a new heart, and a new spirit._
A NEW HEART
I. This is an exhortation which, in one form or another, every man
needs to hear. Here is a man who has to cross a river. There is no
difficulty...
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_Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity
shall not be your ruin._
PRESERVATIVE FROM RUIN
I. The assumption of an awful fact. Iniquity induces ruin. The term
“ruin” occur...
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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 18:30 Repentance is not being urged on
Jerusalem, for the preceding chapters affirm that its destruction is
assured. Rather, the exiles are pressed to repent and take
responsib...
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(Ezekiel 18:27.)
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 18:29. “Are not your ways unequal?”
“They asserted (Ezekiel 18:25) that the ways of God were not
right—properly, not weighed in the balance of righteousness...
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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 Peter 1:14; 1 Peter 1:22; 1 Peter 2:1; 1 Peter 4:2; Acts 13:46;...
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Make you a new heart — Suffer me to do it in you....