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Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 18:31-32

“Cast away from you all your transgressions, by which you have transgressed, and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. For why will you die, Oh house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies,” says the Lord Yahweh, “For which reason turn yourselves and live.” These remarkable verses must be seen in the light of Ezekiel 36:26 (see also Jeremiah 32:39). The call of God assumes His willingness to work in them what is required. If they were willing to turn from their... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 18:31

Not only cease from sin, but with indignation throw it away, as a loathsome, pernicious thing, or as a burden will sink you. Your transgressions; as God requires, so it is the property of true repentance, that it does frame the heart against his own sins. Make you a new heart; open your eyes, and let the clear, convincing light of my words, arguments, and proceedings shine upon you; do not obstinately harden your hearts, that you should retain your old prejudices against my justice and mercy,... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Ezekiel 18:27-32

(Ezekiel 18:27-32.)EXEGETICAL NOTES.—Ezekiel 18:29. “Are not your ways unequal?” “They asserted (Ezekiel 18:25) that the ways of God were not right—properly, not weighed in the balance of righteousness (Job 21:6)—but regulated by caprice. This assertion proceeded from defective consciousness of sin, that could find no other key to suffering than this, that it was decreed unrighteously, on account of the sins of the fathers. The prophet points to this, that the guilt lies on their side. If they... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 18:31

Ezekiel 18:31 I. The nature of our ruin. The death of the body is not meant here. That is inevitable. Natural death will be only the beginning of that most awful death to which our text alludes. (1) This death is not the extinction of existence, thought, feeling, conscience. (2) It is the death of pleasure, hope, and love. (3) It involves exclusion from heaven, from the society of the really great and good, from the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. II. The author of our ruin. Does it proceed... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 18:1-32

Chapter 18Now there are instructions for those who have been taken to Babylon, and Ezekiel now turns and speaks to them.The word of the LORD came unto me, saying, What mean ye, that you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge? ( Ezekiel 18:1-2 )Now, it is interesting that Ezekiel was in Babylon, and this proverb was at that time being spoken in Babylon. They're going around saying, "Well, our fathers... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 18:1-32

Ezekiel 18:2 . The fathers have eaten sour (unripe) grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge. Chaldaic, the children follow them. This proverb threw the blame on their fathers, on Adam, on the unbelievers in the desert, and on Manasseh, who went to great excesses. Horace rebukes the Romans; no marvel then that the prophets should do the same. Delicta majorum immeritus lues, Romane. Ezekiel 18:4 . All souls are mine. As the Judge, my hands are clean, my laws are holy, my... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Ezekiel 18:30-32

Ezekiel 18:30-32Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.Preservative from ruinI. The assumption of an awful fact. Iniquity induces ruin. The term “ruin” occurs but seldom in the sacred Scriptures. It is, however, one of awful import and aspect; a word ever used in an evil sense to describe the fearful disaster which has befallen him who was the subject of it. In the text the word is employed to describe the eternal misery of the soul.1. He... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Ezekiel 18:31

Ezekiel 18:31Make you a new heart, and a new spirit.A new heartI. This is an exhortation which, in one form or another, every man needs to hear. Here is a man who has to cross a river. There is no difficulty in crossing--the bridge is there--it is plain and palpable; but he stops to speculate how the bridge could have been erected--how it could span the river--and he goes still deeper into subtleties, and speculates how it is possible that he has the power of crossing it, and all the while... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 18:31

Eze 18:31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? Ver. 31. Cast away from you, &c. ] And so evidence the soundness of your repentance. He that repenteth with a contradiction, as continuing in his sins, shall be pardoned with a contradiction - that is, cast into hell. All your transgression. ] All, as well as any; else ye do but take pains to go to hell. Gideon’s one bastard... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Ezekiel 18:31

Cast: Ezekiel 20:7, Psalms 34:14, Isaiah 1:16, Isaiah 1:17, Isaiah 30:22, Isaiah 55:7, Romans 8:13, Ephesians 4:22-Jonah :, Colossians 3:5-1 Samuel :, James 1:21, 1 Peter 1:14, 1 Peter 2:1, 1 Peter 4:2-Numbers : make: Ezekiel 11:19, Ezekiel 36:26, Psalms 51:10, Jeremiah 32:39, Matthew 12:33, Matthew 23:26, Acts 3:19, Romans 8:13, Romans 12:2, James 4:8, 1 Peter 1:22 for why: Ezekiel 33:11, Deuteronomy 30:15, Deuteronomy 30:19, Proverbs 8:36, Jeremiah 21:8, Jeremiah 27:15, Acts 13:46 ... read more

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