Ezekiel 47:8

Eze 47:8 Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea: [which being] brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed.

Ver. 8. These waters issue out toward the east country. ] In Galilaeam anteriorem. a See Acts 9:31 - the churches in Galilee, "walking in the fear of the Lord and comforts of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied."

And go down into the desert. ] Or, Plain; i.e., into the plains of Moab. Num 22:1 The gospel worketh upon the worst, even to a transmentation.

And go into the sea. ] The Dead Sea. The law of the Spirit of life which is in Christ Jesus, freeth men from the law of sin and of death. Rom 8:2

The waters shall be healed, ] i.e., Made wholesome and useful; so great a cure is done upon corrupt nature by the grace of the gospel. He who was before vitiorum vorago, lacus libidinum, mare sceleribus amarum ac mortuum, a lake of lusts, a guzzle of vices, a dead sea of wickedness and wretchedness, shall by a strange change become a pleasant river, pure, clear, sweet, and savoury; beset not with such mock fruit as the banks of the Dead Sea are said to be, but with trees richly laden with the choicest fruits; as was to be seen in the penitent thief, who, as soon as gospelised and converted, bestirred him and bore abundance of fruit in a very little space.

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