Ezekiel 16:44 - Exposition

Every one that speaketh proverbs, etc. As in Ezekiel 18:2 , we have an example of the tendency of the Eastern mind to condense the experience of life into the form of proverbial sayings. Here the proverb expresses what we call the doctrine of heredite. We say, in such cases, "Like father, like son;" but the feeling of the East recognized, especially in the case of daughters, that the mother's influence was predominant.