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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 w...
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,...
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 se...
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...
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 g...
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 th...
The next prophecy was directed against the false attitude of mind obtaining among the exiled people, which had expressed itself in a proverb, "The fa...
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 the...
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, throug...
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 h...
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...
Proverb of the Sour Grapes; Reply to the Sour Grapes; Divine Judgments Vindicated. B. C....
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 pers...
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 t...
( Ezekiel 18:5-9 .) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— True righteousness is described as the fulfilment of the commandments of God. Through such righteousness the...
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 p...
EXPOSITION Ezekiel 18:1 , Ezekiel 18:2 What mean ye, that ye use this proverb, etc.? Another and entirely different section opens, a...
But if a man be just, righteous in all his doing, and do that which is lawful and right, literally, "judgment and righteousness," exercising himsel...
The Principle of God's Avenging Justice
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 ; Mat...
5 But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right,