Verse 13
Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase ,.... Contrary to the law of God; See Gill on Ezekiel 18:8 ;
shall he then live ? by virtue of his father's righteousness and goodness, free from calamities, and in the quiet possession of the land of Israel, and the good things of it:
he shall not live ; but go into captivity, and be destitute of the good things of life he has enjoyed; and, without repentance, shall never have eternal life:
he hath done all these abominations ; before mentioned; theft, murder, idolatry, adultery, oppression of the poor, and usury, sins against both tables of the law:
he shall surely die ; the death of affliction, or undergo temporal punishment; and not only die corporeally, but eternally too, if grace prevent not: "in dying he shall die" F6 מות יומת "moriendo morietur", Pagninus, Montanus. ; as in the Hebrew text; he shall die both the first and second death; his father's goodness shall not save him from either:
his blood shall be upon him ; or "bloods" F7 דמיו "sanguines ejus", Montanus. ; the innocent blood he has shed, which he must answer for being guilty of, and shall not escape righteous judgment, and his own blood, the destruction of himself; he shall be the cause of his own ruin, and bring just punishment on his own head.
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