Ezekiel 20:41 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

I will accept you with your sweet savour, when I bring you out from the people, and gather you out of the countries wherein ye have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you before the heathen.

I will accept you with your sweet savour - i:e., in respect to your sweet savour (literally, savour of rest, note, Ezekiel 16:19). Or, I will accept you (your worship) 'as a sweet savour' (Maurer). (Ephesians 5:2; Philippians 4:18.) God first accepts the person in Messiah, then the offering (Ezekiel 20:40; Genesis 4:4).

When I bring you out from the people ... - the same words as in Ezekiel 20:34; but there applied to the bringing forth of the hypocrites, as well as the elect; here restricted to the saved remnant, who alone shall be at last restored, literally and spiritually, in the fullest sense.

And I will be sanctified in you before the heathen - (Jeremiah 33:9). All the nations will acknowledge my power displayed in restoring you, and so shall be led to seek me (Isaiah 66:18; Zechariah 14:16-19).

Ezekiel 20:41

41 I will accept you with your sweetg savour, when I bring you out from the people, and gather you out of the countries wherein ye have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you before the heathen.