_THE PRESUMPTION OF THE PRINCES: THEIR SIN AND JUDGMENT. EZEKIEL COMPLAINING, GOD SHEWETH HIM HIS PURPOSE IN RESTORING A PENITENT REMNANT, AND PUNISHING THE WICKED. THE GLORY OF GOD LEAVETH THE CITY. EZEKIEL IS RETURNED TO THE CAPTIVITY._ _Before Christ 954_... [ Continue Reading ]
FIVE AND TWENTY MEN— The same who are represented in chap. Ezekiel 8:16 as worshipping the sun. They were _princes of the people;_ that is to say, most probably members of the great Sanhedrim. Compare Jeremiah 26:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
THIS CITY IS THE CALDRON— _When they say, that doth not yet hang over, or threaten us, that our houses should be the caldron, and we the flesh._ Jeremiah, as well as Ezekiel himself, foretold the destruction of Jerusalem under the metaphor of a _seething-pot._ See chap. 24: and Jeremiah 1:13.; an id... [ Continue Reading ]
YE HAVE MULTIPLIED YOUR SLAIN— _Ye have multiplied your soldiers in this city, you have filled the streets thereof;_ Ezekiel 11:7. _Therefore thus saith the Lord God, The soldiers whom ye have placed in the midst of you shall be the flesh, and this city the caldron: But I will cast you forth,_ &c. _... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD: FOR, &C.— _The Lord; because ye have not walked,_ &c.... [ Continue Reading ]
PELATIAH—DIED— He fell down dead before the prophet, struck with the menaces of the Lord, as with a blast of lightning. Though this passed in vision, it is probable that Pelatiah really died at Jerusalem, while Ezekiel was carried thither in spirit; and though the prophet was in Mesopotamia, it was... [ Continue Reading ]
_EZEKIEL 11:15_. S_ON OF MAN,_ &C.— _Son of man, thy brethren, the men who are captives with thee, and all the house of Israel; all those of whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem say, They are vanished far from the Lord; the land is given to us in possession._ Ezekiel 11:16. _Thou shalt say these things... [ Continue Reading ]
AND I WILL GIVE THEM ONE HEART— These are the same evangelical promises as we read in the other prophets; particularly Jeremiah 32:39. The insensibility of men with regard to religious matters is often ascribed to the hardness of their hearts. God promises here to give them teachable dispositions, a... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT AS FOR THEM, &C.— _But whoever turn their hearts to idols and detestable things, I,_ &c.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE GLORY OF THE LORD WENT UP— The Lord did not quit Jerusalem all at once; he left it by little and little. He forsook the temple before he stopped at the threshold of the city; at length he elevated himself upon the mount of Olives, which was to the east, and in view of Jerusalem, as it were t... [ Continue Reading ]
SO THE VISION—WENT UP FROM ME— The prophet recovered from his ecstasy, and related all that which we have considered from the beginning of the 8th chapter to this place. REFLECTIONS.—1st, The abominations which were done in the temple we have seen; and as great, it seems, prevailed in the courts of... [ Continue Reading ]