ISRAEL’S INGRATITUDE, PUNISHMENT, AND, IN THE END, FORGIVENESS. (Chap. 16) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The prophet surveys the entire development of the nation, past and future. Their original condition was most wretched, like that of a miserable infant at its birth utterly neglected and deprived of proper a... [ Continue Reading ]
ISRAEL’S APOSTACY FROM GOD (Ezekiel 16:15) EXEGETICAL NOTES. Its origin and nature (Ezekiel 16:15); its magnitude and extent (Ezekiel 16:23). Ezekiel 16:15. The apostacy of Israel is described under the image of whoredom and adultery. “THOU DIDST TRUST IN THINE OWN BEAUTY.” The gifts of God, when t... [ Continue Reading ]
ISRAEL’S PUNISHMENT WILL CORRESPOND WITH HER SINS. (Ezekiel 16:35) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 16:35. “BECAUSE THY FILTHINESS WAS POURED OUT.” Heb. “Because thy brass has been lavished.” Brass is used here to signify money. Israel had spent the wealth which God had given her in the servise of idolatr... [ Continue Reading ]
(Ezekiel 16:43) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 16:43. “HAST FRETTED ME IN ALL THESE THINGS.” Instead of regarding their calamaties as the just punishment of their sin, they raged against the Lord. The judgments that ought to have led them to repentance only served to make them desperate, and to plunge t... [ Continue Reading ]
(Ezekiel 16:53.) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 16:53. “WHEN I SHALL BRING AGAIN THEIR CAPTIVITY, THE CAPTIVITY OF SODOM AND HER DAUGHTERS, AND THE CAPTIVITY OF SAMARIA AND HER DAUGHTERS, THEN WILL I BRING AGAIN THE CAPTIVITY OF THY CAPTIVES IN THE MIDST OF THEM.” “The promise commences with an announce... [ Continue Reading ]