Ezekiel 20:11 - Exposition

I gave them my statutes, etc. Ezekiel recognizes, almost in the very language of Deuteronomy 30:16-20 , as fully as the writers of Psalms 19:1-14 and Psalms 119:1-176 . recognized, the excellence of the Law. A man who kept that Law in its fulness would have life in its fullest and highest sense. He was beginning, however, to recognize, as Jeremiah had (lone ( Jeremiah 31:31 ), the powerlessness of the Law to give that life without the aid of something higher. The "new covenant" was already dawning on the mind of the scholar as on that of the master.