“ But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right, ”
man. Hebrew. 'ish . App-14.
Here the Prophet confirms his former teaching by examples. For he first says, if any one faithfully keep the law, he shall prosper, since God will repay the reward of justice: afterwards he add...
But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right, If a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right - If he be just or holy within, and do what is according to law and equity. What i...
But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right, But if a man be just. Here begins the illustration of God's impartiality in a series of supposed cases: Firstly, from Ezekiel 18:...
God's Equity vindicated The popular view of Israel's calamities, as expressed in a current proverb, was that they were the punishment of the sins of former generations. Though there was a measure...
If a man be just. — At the opening and close of the statement in regard to the righteous man ( Ezekiel 18:5 ; Ezekiel 18:9 ), he is described in general and comprehensive terms; while in the inter...
THE RELIGION OF THE INDIVIDUAL Ezekiel 18:1-32 IN the sixteenth chapter, as we have seen, Ezekiel has asserted in the most unqualified terms the validity of the principle of national retributio...
The next prophecy was directed against the false attitude of mind obtaining among the exiled people, which had expressed itself in a proverb, "The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's t...
I include all these verses under one view in reading, the better to gather also into one view the just and unalterable reasoning of the Lord upon them. Here are three cases stated, in a father, and a...
But if a man be just ,.... Not legally, as to be wholly free from sin, for there is no such just man, Ecclesiastes 7:20 ; but evangelically, through the imputation of the righteousness of Christ un...
But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right, Ver. 5. But if a man be just. ] Keep faith and a good conscience; do good acts, and have good aims; do all as well as any, not this or...
If a man be just Or righteous , rather, as the word צדיק properly signifies; for it is not mere honesty, but true religion that is intended. And hath not eaten upon the mountains Feasted on the...
Proverb of the Sour Grapes; Reply to the Sour Grapes; Divine Judgments Vindicated. B. C. 593. ...
So far is God from perverse and froward partiality in his judgments, that none ever had cause to complain hereof. If a man, without respect of persons, every one, whoever he be, be just; faultless...
The Righteous Father. “But if a man is just and does what is lawful and right, and has not eaten on the mountains, nor has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, nor has defiled h...
( Ezekiel 18:5-9 .) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— True righteousness is described as the fulfilment of the commandments of God. Through such righteousness the righteous shall live. Ezekiel 18:5 . “That whi...
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,...
EXPOSITION Ezekiel 18:1 , Ezekiel 18:2 What mean ye, that ye use this proverb, etc.? Another and entirely different section opens, and we see at once from what it started. Ezekiel ha...
But if a man be just, righteous in all his doing, and do that which is lawful and right, literally, "judgment and righteousness," exercising himself in the demands of the Law of God,
1 John 2:29 ; 1 John 2:3 ; 1 John 3:7 ; 1 John 5:2-5 ; Ezekiel 33:14 ; Genesis 18:19 ; James 1:22-25 ; James 2:14-26 ; Jeremiah 22:15 ; Matthew 7:21-27 ; Proverbs 21:3 ; Psalms 15:2-5 ;...