エゼキエル書 18:9 JC

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 18:1-9

Evil manners, we say, beget good laws; and in like manner sometimes unjust reflections occasion just vindications; evil proverbs beget good prophecies. Here is, I. An evil proverb commonly used by the Jews in their captivity. We had one before (Ezek. 12:22) and a reply to it; here we have another. That sets God's justice at defiance: ?The days are prolonged and every vision fails; the threatenings are a jest.? This charges him with injustice, as if the judgments executed were a wrong: ?You use... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 18:9

Hath walked in my statutes ,.... Respecting the worship of God and true religion; being observant of all laws and ordinances relating thereunto: and hath kept my judgments to deal truly ; in things moral and civil among men; regarding all such laws of God as oblige to such things: he is just ; such a man is a just man, at least externally; and if he does all these things from a right principle, without trusting to them for justification before God, and acceptance with him, but... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 18:9

Hath walked in my statutes - Not only acknowledging them to be right, but acting according to them. Especially in every thing that relates to my worship, changing nothing, neglecting nothing. And hath kept my judgments, to deal truly - Has attended to my Divine direction, both with respect to things forbidden, and things commanded. These concern men in their religious conduct. He is just - הוא צדיק tsaddik hu . He is a righteous man; he has given to all their due; he has... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 18:9

Verse 9 We yesterday explained why the Prophet says that no one is just unless he withdraw his hands from iniquity, because many occasions tempt us to injure others: unless we restrain ourselves in a middle course we often hurt our neighbors. Now among the virtues of a just man he puts, to judge according to truth: to act truthfully, says he, between man and man. This seems indeed to be the proper duty of judges who discharge a public office, but yet it is suitable to private persons; for... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 18:5-9

The verses that follow are noticeable as forming one of the most complete pictures of a righteous life presented in the Old Testament. It ads characteristic of Ezekiel that he starts from the avoidance of sins against the first table of the commandments. To eat upon the mountains was to take part in the sacrificial feasts on the places, of which he had already spoken ( Ezekiel 16:16 ; comp. Ezekiel 22:9 ; Deuteronomy 12:2 ). The words, lifted up his eyes, as in Deuteronomy 4:19 and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 18:5-9

The just man delineated, "But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right," etc. I. THE CHARACTER MENTIONED . "If a man be just," or righteous. This justness or righteousness is not merely a state of correct opinion; or of becoming feeling on moral questions; or of religious profession ( Matthew 7:21 ). It is a condition of character. The just man "is marked by this, that his settled principles, his customary desire, is to do, not what is pleasant, not what is... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 18:5-18

The moral alternative. With a legal minuteness, and with a directness and plainness becoming to the teacher of practical morality, the prophet presents the alternative and antithesis of human life. If not in every particular, still in almost every particular, the picture of the good and of the bad man printed in this passage would be admitted by moralists of every school to be faithful and fair. I. THE DESCRIPTION OF THE GOOD AND OF THE BAD MAN . As the classes are... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 18:5-24

God's remonstrance with man's reason. It is an act of singular kindness that God should stoop to reason with the perverted mind of man. It had been a pleasure to instruct the uncorrupted mind; but now that the instrument is injured, it requires infinitely more patience and skill to deal with it. Yet God deigns to explain his principles of rule, and will eventually vindicate, as supremely just, every secret act. But sinful men are self-blinded. I. WE ARE REMINDED OF MAN 'S ... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 18:9-13

Live ... die - In the writings of Ezekiel there is a development of the meaning of “life” and “death.” In the holy land the sanctions of divine government were in great degree temporal; so that the promise of “life” for “obedience,” the threatening of “death” for “disobedience,” in the Books of Moses, were regarded simply as temporal and national. In their exile this could not continue in its full extent, and the universality of the misfortune necessarily made men look deeper into the words of... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 18:5-9

Ezekiel 18:5-9. 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 sacrifices they offered to false gods. Idolatrous worship was commonly performed upon mountains or high places; and eating part of the sacrifice was properly maintaining communion with the idol to which it was offered. Neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols In prayer and... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 18:1-9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 18:9

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 18:9

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 18:9

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 18:5-9

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 18:5-9

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 18:5-18

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 18:5-24

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 18:9-13

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 18:5-9

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