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 truth in this, the proverb
was used in a false and mischievous sense. It led the present
generation t... [ Continue Reading ]
THE FATHERS, etc.] The same proverb is quoted and refuted in Jeremiah
31:29; Jeremiah 31:30.... [ Continue Reading ]
ALL SOULS ARE MINE] God deals directly with every one, and not with
the son through the father.
IT SHALL DIE] 'Die' and 'live' are used in the sense explained under
Ezekiel 3:18.... [ Continue Reading ]
EATEN UPON THE MOUNTAINS] shared in an idolatrous meal at a high
place.... [ Continue Reading ]
RESTORED.. HIS PLEDGE] see Exodus 22:6; Deuteronomy 24:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
MENTIONED UNTO] RV 'remembered against': so in Ezekiel 18:24.... [ Continue Reading ]
Ezekiel does not raise the question whether a truly righteous man
could thus fall away. He assumes that a man's final conduct expresses
his real and final character.... [ Continue Reading ]