Acts 17:18; John 16:25; Matthew 13:13; Matthew 13:14
This paragraph is in the Hebrew text, Septuagint and Vulgate the beginning of Ezekiel 21 to which it belongs, as it contains a prophecy delivered...
Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak (z) parables? (z) The people said that the prophet spoke darkly: therefore he desires th...
Ezekiel 20:45 to Ezekiel 21:32 . The Terrible Sword of Nebuchadrezzar. Here again, as shortly before (chs. 18f.), a piece of theological oratory...
parables. Thus intended to have the same purpose as the Lord's parables. See Matthew 13:11 .
DISCOURSE: 1110 MEN’S TREATMENT OF THE GOSPEL Ezekiel 20:49 . Then said I, Ah Lord God! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables? THE word o...
Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables? Ah Lord God - O my God, consider my situation; who will believe what I shall sa...
Doth he not speak parables?— Though these prophesies were clear enough, if they would have given themselves the trouble to have considered and comp...
Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me. An introductory brief description, in enigma,...
§ 5. A Final series of Prophecies on the necessity of Israel's Punishment and the Destruction of Jerusalem (Ezekiel 20-24) Date, Aug.-Sept. 590 b....
The Sword of the Lord against Jerusalem (and Ammon?) Ezekiel 21 of the Hebrew Bible begins with Ezekiel 20:45 of the English. It is mainly con...
Doth he not speak parables? — Or enigmas — things that we cannot understand. This the prophet did designedly, as he had done in other cases, to awa...
JEHOVAH'S CONTROVERSY WITH ISRAEL Ezekiel 20:1-49 BY far the hardest trial of Ezekiel's faith must have been the conduct of his fellow-exiles....
In this final section of the prophecies dealing with reprobation, the prophet in a series of messages set forth the righteousness thereof. In the sev...
This seems a new discourse, or, if it be not, it is only as a postscript to a letter. The former was delivered concerning the Church in Babylon, and...
REFLECTIONS READER! what an awful account is here given, and by the Lord Himself, of a congregation of worshippers. Are there any such in the presen...
Then said I, ah Lord God !.... The Septuagint version is, "by no means, Lord, Lord"; that is, let me not be sent on such an errand; at least, let it...
Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables? Ver. 49. Doth he not speak parables? ] Nonne artifex est parabolarum iste?...
Moreover, the word of the Lord , &c. Here we have a new prophecy, with which Houbigant, following many learned commentators, begins the xxist ch...
Judgment and Mercy. B. C. 592. 45 Mo...
When the prophet had done his duty, and prophesied, and they should have heard and understood, he returns with a complaint of their quarrelling, cens...
‘Then said I, “Ah, Lord Yahweh, they say of me, is he not one who tells stories (or ‘a riddler of riddles')?” ' Here we have a very human touch. In...
( Ezekiel 20:45-49 ) EXEGETICAL NOTES. The destruction of Jerusalem under the image of a forest devoured by fire. A comparison of these verses with...
Ezekiel 20:49 Nothing is more disheartening, if we must believe it to be true, than the language in which some persons talk of the difficulties of...
Ezekiel 20:1 . The elders of Israel came to enquire of the Lord, and sat before me. They still respected the divine καρισματα, or holy anointing o...
Ah Lord God! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables. Mystery and dogma in religion There is a tone of remonstrance and expostulation in the...
EXPOSITION Ezekiel 20:1 A new date is given, and includes what follows to Ezekiel 23:49 . The last note of time was in Ezekiel 8:1 , and...
The Picture of the Forest Fire
Then said I, Ah, Lord God! They say of me, Doth he not speak parables? Ezekiel thus complaining that his countrymen could not understand this form of...
Parables — So absolutely, that we cannot understand him.
49 Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables?