Verse 10
10. Because, even because—The repetition heightens the emphasis.
Peace—safety to the nation. Ezekiel confirms Jeremiah 6:14; Jeremiah 8:11.
one—literally, "this one"; said contemptuously, as in Jeremiah 8:11- :.
a wall—rather, "a loose wall." Ezekiel had said that the false prophets did not "go up into the gaps, or make up the breaches" (Jeremiah 8:11- :), as good architects do; now he adds that they make a bustling show of anxiety about repairing the wall; but it is without right mortar, and therefore of no use.
one . . . others—besides individual effort, they jointly co-operated to delude the people.
daubed . . . with untempered mortar—as sand without lime, mud without straw [GROTIUS]. FAIRBAIRN translates, "plaster it with whitewash." But besides the hypocrisy of merely outwardly "daubing" to make the wall look fair (Matthew 23:27; Matthew 23:29; Acts 23:3), there is implied the unsoundness of the wall from the absence of true uniting cement; the "untempered cement" answering to the lie of the prophets, who say, in support of their prophecies, "Thus saith the Lord, when the Lord hath not spoken" (Acts 23:3- :).
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