Ezekiel 33:1
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah_. App-4,... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah_. App-4,... [ Continue Reading ]
SON OF MAN. See note on Ezekiel 2:1. CHILDREN. sons. A. one. MAN. Hebrew. _ish,_ App-14. COASTS. borders: i.e. one man out from within the border. of their land.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SWORD. judgment. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of the Effect), App-8, for that which executes the judgment.... [ Continue Reading ]
HIS OWN HEAD. himself: "head" being put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of the Part), App-6, for the whole person.... [ Continue Reading ]
SOUL. Hebrew. NEPHESH. App-13.... [ Continue Reading ]
PERSON. soul. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13. INIQUITY. Hebrew. _avah_. App-44. Not the same as ise verses: Ezekiel 33:13; Ezekiel 33:15; Ezekiel 33:18.... [ Continue Reading ]
WICKED. lawless. Hebrew. _rasha_ '. App-44. iniquity. Hebrew 'avah App-44.... [ Continue Reading ]
IN: or, for.... [ Continue Reading ]
TRANSGRESSIONS. Hebrew. _pasha_. App-44. SINS. Hebrew. _chata_. App-44. PINE AWAY, &c. Ref: to Pentateuch. See notes on Ezekiel 4:12 with Ezekiel 24:23.... [ Continue Reading ]
AS. LIVE, he. Figure of speech Delete. App-6. SAITH THE LORD GOD. [is] Adonai Jehovah's oracle, See note on Ezekiel 2:4. TURN YE. Note the Figure of speech _Epizeuxis_. App-6. EVIL. Hebrew. _ra'a._ App-44. WHY WILL YE DIE... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis_. App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEREBY: or, therein. IN THE DAY. when. See App-18. FOR HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS. thereby, or therein, in the day, &c. SINNETH. Hebrew. _chata_ '. App-44.... [ Continue Reading ]
TRUST. confide. Hebrew batch App-69. RIGHTEOUSNESSES. righteous deeds. In Hebrew text it is singular. ("righteousness "); but the margin, with four early printed editions, reads "righteousnesses" (plural) for: or, in. Compare Ezekiel 33:9. INIQUITY. Hebrew. _aval_ App-44. Not the same word as in E... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT WHICH IS... RIGHT = judgment and righteousness.... [ Continue Reading ]
RESTORE THE PLEDGE, he. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 22:26; Leviticus 6:2; Leviticus 6:4; Leviticus 6:5.Deuteronomy 24:6; Deuteronomy 24:10; Deuteronomy 24:17). GIVE AGAIN. Note the Figure of speech _Asyndeton_ (App-6), hurrying on to the climax at end of verse. HE SHALL SURELY LIVE. Reference t... [ Continue Reading ]
SINS. Hebrew text reads "sin"; but margin, some codices, and four early printed editions, read "sins" (p1.)... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD. One of the emendations of the _Sopherim_, by which they say they changed Jehovah of the primitive text to Adonai. See App-32. EQUAL. See note on "pondereth", Proverbs 21:2.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEREBY: or, in them: i.e. in those deeds.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Adonai_. App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE TWELFTH YEAR... TENTH MONTH... FIFTH DAY. This is the date of the taking of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar. See Ezekiel 40:1. The event in the twenty-fifth year is said to be the fourteenth year from the twelfth (i.e. from the tenth month of tho twelfth year to the first month of the twenty-fifth).... [ Continue Reading ]
THE EVENING. Doubtless, of the same day of his escape. he that was escaped. As foretold in Ezekiel 24:26. MY MOUTH WAS OPENED. Compare Ezekiel 24:27; Ezekiel 29:21, i.e. in prophecy. NO MORE DUMB: i.. silent from prophesying, Note the Figure of speech _Pleonasm_ (App-6), to emphasise the fact.... [ Continue Reading ]
WASTES. ruins. THE LAND OF ISRAEL. the soil of Israel. Hebrew. _admath._ Not the same word as in Ezekiel 33:28, which is _'eretz_. See note on Ezekiel 11:17. YE EAT WITH THE BLOOD. eat over (_'al_) the blood: i.e. over or near (as the heathen in their necromancy). Reference to Pentateuch (not to D... [ Continue Reading ]
YE: i.e. Ye [men]. The verb is masculine. YE STAND UPON YOUR SWORD. Ye take your stand (first occurrence Genesis 18:8; Genesis 18:22), [leaning] upon, &c. The posture assumed by necromancers waiting for the rites, ye work, &c.: i.e. ye [women] work, &c. The verb is feminine.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LAND. Hebrew. _eretz._ Not the same word as in Ezekiel 33:24.... [ Continue Reading ]
SHALL THEY KNOW, he. See note on Ezekiel 6:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
AGAINST. about. DOORS. entrances. TO. with.... [ Continue Reading ]
AS THE PEOPLE COMETH: or, according as an assembly cometh together. SHEW MUCH LOVE: or, counterfeit lovers. Hebrew. _agabim_. See note on next verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
10. Figure of speech _Asterismos_. App-6. A VERY LOVELY SONG. Hebrew. _agabim_. a song for the pipes. Note the Figure of speech _Paronomasia (Revelation 6; Revelation 6_), with "lovers", in Ezekiel 33:31.... [ Continue Reading ]