mh_parser/scraps/chapter_Ezek_15_1-Ezek_15_8.html
2023-12-17 15:08:46 -05:00

2 lines
958 B
HTML
Raw Permalink Blame History

This file contains ambiguous Unicode characters

This file contains Unicode characters that might be confused with other characters. If you think that this is intentional, you can safely ignore this warning. Use the Escape button to reveal them.

<p class="tab-1">Ezekiel has again and again, in Gods name, foretold the utter ruin of Jerusalem; but, it should seem, he finds it hard to reconcile himself to it, and to acquiesce in the will of God in this severe dispensation; and therefore God takes various methods to satisfy him not only that it shall be so, but that there is no remedy: it must be so; it is fit that it should be so. Here, in this short chapter, he shows him (probably with design that he should tell the people) that it was as requisite Jerusalem should be destroyed as that the dead and withered branches of a vine should be cut off and thrown into the fire. I. The similitude is very elegant (<a class="bibleref" title="Ezek.15.1-Ezek.15.5" href="/passage/?search=Ezek.15.1-Ezek.15.5">Ezek. 15:1-5</a>), but, II. The explanation of the similitude is very dreadful, <a class="bibleref" title="Ezek.15.6-Ezek.15.8" href="/passage/?search=Ezek.15.6-Ezek.15.8">Ezek. 15:6-8</a>.</p>