John Trapp Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 20:18
Eze 20:18 But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols: Ver. 18. Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers. ] With this text Frederick IV, prince palatine, answered another prince, who pressed him to be of his late noble father’s religion. Laban swore by the god of Nahor, or Abram, and of their idolatrous fathers; but Jacob sware by the "fear of his father Isaac," his... read more
John Trapp Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 20:17
Eze 20:17 Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness. Ver. 17. Nevertheless mine eye spared them. ] It was by a non obstante of God’s mercy, and by a prop of his extraordinary patience, that they subsisted. read more