THE FIRE AND SWORD OF DIVINE JUSTICE GO FORTH AGAINST HEATHENISED JERUSALEM. (Chap. 21). EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The people had turned all their hopes towards the mother country,—the city and kingdom. The prophet shows this to be a delusion. The sword of the Lord will cut off Jerusalem and the land of Is... [ Continue Reading ]
EXEGETICAL NOTES. (Ezekiel 21:8.) The sword is sharpened for slaying. As they are a people who refuse to understand, the judgment is announced in the plainest terms. Ezekiel 21:9. “AND ALSO FURBISHED.” As if the sword so long unused had rusted in its sheath. “The repetition—_a sword, a sword,_ is no... [ Continue Reading ]
EXEGETICAL NOTES.—(Ezekiel 21:18). The sword of the king of Babylon will smite Jerusalem, and then the Ammonites. Ezekiel 21:19. “APPOINT THEE TWO WAYS, THAT THE SWORD OF THE KING OF BABYLON MAY COME.” The force of this word, “appoint,” is to draw a symbolic sketch, to give an ocular demonstration.... [ Continue Reading ]
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 21:23. Though this announcement of God’s judgments will appear to the people of Judea as a deceptive divination, yet it will surely come to pass. The prophet, however, sees beyond all these evils the hope of redemption. The Messiah is promised, who is to be the founder and... [ Continue Reading ]
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 21:28. The overthrow of the Ammonites. Israel is to rise after judgment, but Ammon is to be utterly destroyed. Ezekiel 21:28. “CONCERNING THE AMMONITES, AND CONCERNING THEIR REPROACH EVEN SAY THOU, THE SWORD, THE SWORD IS DRAWN.” “Lest it should be supposed that because Ne... [ Continue Reading ]