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Verse Ezekiel 18:23. _HAVE I ANY PLEASURE AT ALL THAT THE WICKED
SHOULD_ _DIE?_] No! That is foreign to him whose name is love, and
whose nature is mercy. On the contrary he "wills that he should retu...
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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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The verse meets a feeling of despair both in regard to themselves and
in regard to God which was beginning to take possession of the minds
of some, perhaps many, among the people. The despair in regar...
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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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But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed,
and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he
shall surely live, he shall not die.
BUT IF THE WICKED SHA...
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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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HAVE I ANY PLEASURE AT ALL? — This brings out that fundamental truth
which underlies the whole teaching of both the Old and New Testaments,
and which should have satisfied Israel of the Lord’s readine...
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הֶ חָפֹ֤ץ אֶחְפֹּץ֙ מֹ֣ות רָשָׁ֔ע
נְאֻ֖ם אֲדֹ
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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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(f) Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the
Lord GOD: [and] not that he should return from his ways, and live?
(f) He speaks this to commend God's mercy to poor sinners, who r...
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Will. God sincerely wishes that the sinner should be converted. If he
refuse grace, it is only in punishment of former transgressions. (St.
Augustine, ep. 217.) --- He wills antecedently their salvati...
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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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He confirms the same sentiment in other words, that God desires
nothing more earnestly than that those who were perishing and rushing
to destruction should return into the way of safety. And for this...
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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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HAVE I ANY PLEASURE AT ALL THAT THE WICKED SHOULD DIE? SAITH THE LORD
GOD,.... Perish by sword, famine, or pestilence, or go into captivity;
this, though the Lord's will and work, yet is his strange w...
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Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord
GOD: [and] not that he should return from his ways, and live?
Ver. 23. _Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die?_]...
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_But if the wicked will turn from all his sins_ That is, repent and
bring forth fruit worthy of repentance. _He shall surely live_ He
shall escape punishment: he shall be pardoned, and it shall be wel...
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God's Merciful call to Repentance...
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Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord
God, an inherent delight, as it were, in cruel punishment of the
wicked, AND NOT THAT HE SHOULD RETURN FROM HIS WAYS AND LIVE? thi...
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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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Now, O ye perverse Jews! if by these truths you will judge of me,
could it enter the thoughts of any one of you, that I should, as
delighting in the death of sinners, impute other men's sins to you,
t...
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Ezekiel 18:23 pleasure H2654 (H8799) all H2654 (H8800) wicked H7563
die H4194 says H5002 (H8803) Lord...
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“Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked?” says the Lord
Yahweh, “and not rather that he should return from his way and
live?”
These words should be seared on all our hearts. God has no desire...
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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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_Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die?_
A SUMMONS TO REPENTANCE
If we spare not our sins, but slay them with the sword of the Spirit,
God will spare us. The words are uttered by a fi...
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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 18:19 WHY SHOULD NOT THE SON SUFFER FOR THE
INIQUITY OF THE FATHER? Ezekiel anticipates his audience clinging to
their traditional understanding, which is summarized in the now...
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EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 18:20 THE SOUL WHO SINS SHALL DIE. Verses
Ezekiel 18:21 explain this teaching in what might seem a surprising
way. Verses...
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(Ezekiel 18:21.)
EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The ways of life and death are here for all set
forth. A man’s own sins even, provided they are forsaken, will not
exclude him from salvation. “The proof that every...
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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 Timothy 2:4; 2 Peter 3:9; Exodus 34:6; Exodus 34:7; Ezekiel 18:32;...