Ezekiel 5 - Introduction
_UNDER THE TYPE OF HAIR, IS SHEWED THE JUDGMENT OF JERUSALEM FOR THEIR REBELLION, BY FAMINE, SWORD, AND DISPERSION._ _Before Christ 594._... [ Continue Reading ]
_UNDER THE TYPE OF HAIR, IS SHEWED THE JUDGMENT OF JERUSALEM FOR THEIR REBELLION, BY FAMINE, SWORD, AND DISPERSION._ _Before Christ 594._... [ Continue Reading ]
TAKE THEE A BARBER'S RAZOR— The balances were a symbol of the divine justice, as the razor was of the divine anger; the former signifying his equity, the _hairs_ the Jews, and the dividing of the hair the punishment inflicted upon individuals. The author of the _Observations_ has remarked, that amon... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEN THE DAYS OF THE SIEGE ARE FULFILLED— _While the days of the siege shall continue:_ that is, of the visionary siege spoken of in the preceding chapter. This verse is fully explained by the 12th.... [ Continue Reading ]
TAKE—A FEW—AND BIND, &C.— Hereby is prefigured the remnant of the Jews who should be left in the land under Gedaliah; and in the next verse the destruction which should come upon _them_ also. See Jeremiah 40:5; Jeremiah 44:11; Jeremiah 44:30. Houbigant renders the last clause of the next verse, _Fro... [ Continue Reading ]
THIS IS JERUSALEM— "This Jerusalem, against which thou prophesiest, was placed in the midst of the heathen nations. It made a figure among them on account of my temple, and the tokens of my presence. _It was a city set on a hill,_ that it might be a pattern of religion, holiness, and virtue to them.... [ Continue Reading ]
YE MULTIPLIED—NEITHER HAVE DONE ACCORDING TO THE JUDGMENTS OF THE NATIONS— _Ye have sinned—but have done after the manners of the heathen._ Houbigant. See ch. Ezekiel 11:12. God here calls the law of conscience and of nations _his statutes and judgments;_ which the Jews had more infamously transgres... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LIKE— The national punishment of the Jews, comprehending what they suffered from Nebuchadrezzar, Titus, and Adrian, has been remarkably signal.... [ Continue Reading ]
WILL I ALSO DIMINISH— _Will I cut thee off._ Houbigant.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND I WILL DRAW OUT A SWORD AFTER THEM— That is, "Mine anger shall still pursue thee even into countries whither thou art banished and carried captive." This was particularly fulfilled in those who retired into Egypt, and has been remarkably verified in the many persecutions and miseries which the J... [ Continue Reading ]
THUS SHALL MINE ANGER BE ACCOMPLISHED— _For my anger shall be accomplished, and then I will comfort myself, when my fury shall rest upon them; and then they shall know that I am the_ LORD, _who in mine anger have foretold these things, when my fury shall be accomplished upon them._ Houbigant. The id... [ Continue Reading ]
SO IT SHALL BE, &C.— _And the reproach and the obloquy shall be a warning and an amazement,_ &c.... [ Continue Reading ]
FAMINE AND EVIL BEASTS— That is, by a figure called by the Greeks εν δια δυοιν, _the hungry and the evil beast._ Instead of _blood,_ Houbigant reads death or mortality. REFLECTIONS.—1st, Jerusalem's ruin is here represented by another sign. 1. The prophet must shave his head and beard, and carefull... [ Continue Reading ]