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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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DISCOURSE: 1107
EQUITY OF GOD IN HIS JUDGMENTS
Ezekiel 18:25. Ye say, the way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O
house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal? When
a righteous ma...
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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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When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and
committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath
done shall he die.
WHEN A RIGHTEOUS MAN TURNETH AWAY FROM HIS RIG...
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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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וַ יִּרְאֶ֣ה _וַ_†_יָּ֔שָׁב_† מִ כָּל
־פְּשָׁעָ֖יו...
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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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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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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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BECAUSE HE CONSIDERETH,.... Being come to himself, and in his right
mind, he considers the evil of his ways; what they lead to; what they
deserve at the hand of God; and what he may expect, should he...
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_Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal_, &c. Yet ye allege that
I do not act according to the strict rules of justice and equity: but
“the declarations I have so often repeated concerning the e...
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Because he considereth, observing carefully and thereby, under the
guidance of the Lord, obtaining the right understanding, AND TURNETH
AWAY FROM ALL HIS TRANSGRESSIONS THAT HE HATH COMMITTED, HE SHAL...
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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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God's promise is to pardon, spare, and preserve the penitent, such
therefore shall not die. CONSIDERETH: see EZEKIEL 18:14. TURNETH;
converteth: see EZEKIEL 18:21. HE SHALL SURELY LIVE, he shall not d...
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Ezekiel 18:28 considers H7200 (H8799) away H7725 (H8799)
transgressions H6588 committed H6213 (H8804) surely H2421
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“When the righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and
commits iniquity, and dies in it, for the iniquity that he has done
will he die. Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickednes...
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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 wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath
committed._
THE CONVERSION OF A SINNER
I. The wicked ought to reform.
1. Sin is contrary to reason.
(1) A sinful action is discre...
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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 18:25 THE WAY OF THE LORD IS NOT JUST.
“Just” has the sense of “weighed” or “measured,” that is,
in conformity to a standard (compare 1 Samuel 2
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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 Samuel 7:3; 1 Samuel 7:4; Colossians 3:5; Deuteronomy 32:29; Ez
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He shall surely live — "That is, he shall be restored to the favour
of God, which is the life of the soul....