Ezekiel 18:6

Verse Ezekiel 6:1

1. Hath not eaten upon the mountains] Idolatrous worship was generally performed on mountains and hills; and those who offered sacrifices feasted on the sacrifice, and thus held communion with the idol.

2. Neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols] Has paid them no religious adoration; has trusted in them for nothing, and has not made prayer nor supplication before them.

3. Neither hath defiled his neighbour's wife] Has had no adulterous connexion with any woman; to which idolatrous feasts and worship particularly led.

4. Neither hath come nigh to a menstruous woman] Has abstained from the use of the marriage-bed during the periodical indisposition of his wife. This was absolutely forbidden by the law; and both the man and the woman who disobeyed the command were to be put to death, Leviticus 20:18. For which Calmet gives this reason: "It has been believed, and experience confirms it, that the children conceived at such times are either leprous, or monsters, or deformed by their diminutiveness, or by the disproportion of their members." There are other reasons for this law, should those of the learned commentator be found invalid.