Verses 44-45
44, 45. See notes Ezekiel 5:3. The use of proverbs is one of Ezekiel’s favorite literary devices.
That loatheth her husband If the allegory is continued here, Ezekiel, like St. Paul, must be teaching that Jehovah is God of the whole earth and that idolatry originated through unfaithfulness to the true God. (See Romans 1:20-24.) It may be, however, that this is a side reference to the actual adultery and child murder which the Jews so abhorred in the Canaanites.
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