Introduction
9. The importance of individual righteousness ch. 18
This chapter, like Ezekiel 12:21-28, corrected a common proverb. This one dealt with the people’s false view of the reason for their judgment by God. In form it is a complex disputation speech.
"This doctrine of transgenerational accountability was widespread in the ancient Near East." [Note: Block, The Book . . ., pp. 558-59.]
"In Chapters 18 and 33 are contained some of the most thorough, carefully expressed, and absolutely clear discourses on the topic of the responsibility of the individual for his or her own sins found anywhere in the Bible. These passages provide a valuable correction to the potential errors of fatalism, rigid determinism, and blame-avoidant judgmentalism." [Note: Stuart, p. 19; cf. p. 150.]
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