And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth [month], in the fifth [day] of the month, [as] I sat in mine house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell there upon me. Ver. 1. _In the sixth year._] Of Jeconiah's captivity. _ In the sixth month._] Elul, answ... [ Continue Reading ]
_Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire: from the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the colour of amber._ Ver. 2. _Then I beheld, and lo a likeness._] Of a man, likely. This was the Lord Christ, whose... [ Continue Reading ]
And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where [was] the seat of the image of jealousy, which... [ Continue Reading ]
And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel [was] there, according to the vision that I saw in the plain. Ver. 4. _And behold the glory of the God of Israel,_] _i.e., _ The glorious God of Israel. Act 7:2 _See Trapp on "_ Act 7:2 _"_ Was there,] _scil., _ At the inner gate, where that image of jea... [ Continue Reading ]
Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry. Ver. 5. _The way toward the north._] Where was the greatest concourse of idolaters... [ Continue Reading ]
He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? [even] the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn thee yet again, [and] thou shalt see greater abominations. Ver. 6. _That I should go far from my sanctuary._... [ Continue Reading ]
And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall. Ver. 7. _And he brought me._] _Mystagogus ille angelus._ that angel who showed the sacred places. _ To the door of the court._] Of the priests' court. _ A hole in the wall._] Which should have been kept in b... [ Continue Reading ]
Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door. Ver. 8. _Behold a door._] A secret door, by which they entered into their idol chapel. Such privy passages there are in the Popish monasteries, and in the whole Romish religion not a few. _Ante... [ Continue Reading ]
And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here. Ver. 9. _Go in, and behold the wicked abominations._] No words are bad enough for sin. Solomon calleth it "wickedness of folly, even foolishness of madness"; Ecc 7:25 "mischievous madness"; Eze 10:13 so Luke 16:11, "m... [ Continue Reading ]
So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about. Ver. 10. _And behold every form of creeping things._] These, belike, were their _dii minorum gentium,_ their petty deities, their co... [ Continue Reading ]
_And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up._ Ver. 11. _And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients._] The whole... [ Continue Reading ]
Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth. Ver. 12. _What the ancients of Israel do in the dark?_] Idolatry is a deed of da... [ Continue Reading ]
He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, [and] thou shalt see greater abominations that they do. Ver. 13. _Turn thee yet again,_] _q.d., _ Little didst thou think, Ezekiel, that thy countrymen of Jewry were so prodigiously abominable as now thou seest! and what more sure than sight?... [ Continue Reading ]
Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD'S house which [was] toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz. Ver. 14. _And, behold, there sat women._] These were priests of Isis, whose impious and most impudent kind of worship is largely described by Herodotus, Diod... [ Continue Reading ]
Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen [this], O son of man? turn thee yet again, [and] thou shalt see greater abominations than these. Ver. 15. _Hast thou seen this?_] _q.d., _ And canst thou easily believe thine own eyes? Nevertheless, these flagitious persons have the face to say, "In all my doing... [ Continue Reading ]
And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD'S house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, [were] about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the e... [ Continue Reading ]
_Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen [this], O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose._ Ver. 17... [ Continue Reading ]
_Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, [yet] will I not hear them._ Ver. 18. _Mine eye shall not spare._] Ezekiel 5:11; Ezekiel 7:4 . _ And though they cry in mine ears, &c._] Because it is the cr... [ Continue Reading ]