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Ezekiel
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Then some of the elders of Israel came to me and sat before me. See also: Ezekiel 8:1Ezekiel 20:12 Kings 6:32The LORD’s word came to me, saying, See also: Amos 3:71 Kings 14:4“Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart, and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face. Should I be inquired of at all by them? See also: Ezekiel 14:7Ezekiel 7:19Ezekiel 20:3Therefore speak to them and tell them, ‘The Lord GOD says: “Every man of the house of Israel who takes his idols into his heart and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face then comes to the prophet, I the LORD will answer him there according to the multitude of his idols, See also: Isaiah 66:4Ezekiel 14:7Isaiah 3:11that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.”’ See also: Isaiah 1:4Zechariah 11:8Hosea 10:2“Therefore tell the house of Israel, ‘The Lord GOD says: “Return, and turn yourselves from your idols! Turn away your faces from all your abominations. See also: Ezekiel 18:30Isaiah 2:20Isaiah 30:22“‘“For everyone of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live in Israel, who separates himself from me and takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet to inquire for himself of me, I the LORD will answer him by myself. See also: Exodus 12:48Isaiah 58:1-22 Kings 8:8-15I will set my face against that man and will make him an astonishment, for a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from among my people. Then you will know that I am the LORD. See also: Ezekiel 15:7Ezekiel 5:15Jeremiah 44:11“‘“If the prophet is deceived and speaks a word, I, the LORD, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand on him, and will destroy him from among my people Israel. See also: Jeremiah 4:10Ezekiel 20:25Isaiah 9:17They will bear their iniquity. The iniquity of the prophet will be even as the iniquity of him who seeks him, See also: Ezekiel 23:49Ezekiel 14:7-8Numbers 5:31that the house of Israel may no more go astray from me, neither defile themselves any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God,” says the Lord GOD.’” See also: Ezekiel 37:23Ezekiel 48:11Revelation 21:7The LORD’s word came to me, saying, “Son of man, when a land sins against me by committing a trespass, and I stretch out my hand on it, and break the staff of its bread and send famine on it, and cut off from it man and animal— See also: Ezekiel 4:16Leviticus 26:26Isaiah 3:1though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness,” says the Lord GOD. See also: Jeremiah 15:1Ezekiel 14:20Ezekiel 28:3“If I cause evil animals to pass through the land, and they ravage it and it is made desolate, so that no man may pass through because of the animals— See also: Leviticus 26:22Ezekiel 5:17Jeremiah 15:3though these three men were in it, as I live,” says the Lord GOD, “they would deliver neither sons nor daughters. They only would be delivered, but the land would be desolate. See also: Genesis 19:29Ezekiel 14:18Ezekiel 14:14“Or if I bring a sword on that land, and say, ‘Sword, go through the land, so that I cut off from it man and animal’— See also: Ezekiel 21:3-4Leviticus 26:25Zephaniah 1:3though these three men were in it, as I live,” says the Lord GOD, “they would deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only would be delivered themselves. “Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my wrath on it in blood, to cut off from it man and animal— See also: Ezekiel 38:22Jeremiah 14:12Ezekiel 5:12though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live,” says the Lord GOD, “they would deliver neither son nor daughter; they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness.” See also: Ezekiel 14:141 John 3:10Psalms 33:18-19For the Lord GOD says: “How much more when I send my four severe judgments on Jerusalem—the sword, the famine, the evil animals, and the pestilence—to cut off from it man and animal! See also: Ezekiel 5:17Ezekiel 33:27Ezekiel 14:19Yet, behold, there will be left a remnant in it that will be carried out, both sons and daughters. Behold, they will come out to you, and you will see their way and their doings. Then you will be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought on Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought on it. See also: Ezekiel 12:16Ezekiel 20:43Hebrews 12:6-11They will comfort you, when you see their way and their doings; then you will know that I have not done all that I have done in it without cause,” says the Lord GOD. See also: Jeremiah 22:8-9Ezekiel 8:6-18Ezekiel 9:8-9
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)10 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Ezekiel 14:3
This 19th-century note uses polemical language; read it in the light of the note at the top of this panel.
Ver. 3. Uncleanness. That is, their filthy idols, upon which they have set their hearts: and which are a stumbling-block to their souls. Ch. --- They came, it seems, to tempt the prophet, (C.) as God shewed him. Thus worldlings consult Catholic priests; yet are resolved to join with heretics.
W.
↑ 3Ezekiel 14:4
Ver. 4. According. Heb. "in (C.) the multitude of his idols." H. --- I will still disclose the truth; (Chal.) or a false prophet is here spoken of, whom God will suffer to deceive those who wish to be deluded. He will not have his own prophets speak an untruth. See 3 K. xxii. 10. Christ evaded the insidious questions of his enemies. Mat. xxi. 23. C.
↑ 4Ezekiel 14:5
Ver. 5. The. Sept. "he may ensnare the house," (H.) or "to bring" unto repentance. Chal. C.
↑ 5Ezekiel 14:6
This 19th-century note uses polemical language; read it in the light of the note at the top of this panel.
Ver. 6. Turn. Such people must first be admonished to relinquish idols, heresy,
&c. that they may come to God. W.
↑ 6Ezekiel 14:7
Ver. 7. By myself, or on my own account. God does not encourage falsehood.
C.
↑ 7Ezekiel 14:9
Ver. 9. Err. He speaks of false prophets, answering out of their own heads, and according to their own corrupt inclinations. --- Deceived, &c. God Almighty deceives false prophets, partly by withdrawing his light from them; and abandoning them to their own corrupt inclinations, which push them on to prophesy such things as are agreeable to those that consult them: and partly by disappointing them, and causing all things to happen contrary to what they have said. Ch. --- God permits the deception, to punish both the impostor and his hearers. W. --- Thus was Balaam treated. C. Num. xxii. H. --- He could do nothing of himself. S. Jer. 2 K. xxii. 22. C. --- Here also an interrogation might be used (H.) in Heb. "have I?" &c. Feiffer dub. cent. 4. b. lviii. --- I have manifested the deceit. C. xiii. 18.
↑ 9Ezekiel 14:10
Ver. 10. Be. They shall be punished alike. C.
↑ 10Ezekiel 14:14
Ver. 14. Job. He and Noe were dead, yet undoubtedly interceded for the people, or their names would not here be mentioned. Jer. xv. 1. W. --- When God is resolved to treat all with rigour, he will save only the just. They shall not be able to protect even their children. But Jerusalem shall not experience such severity. v. 21. C. --- Noe could not avert the deluge, nor Job the death of his children, neither could Daniel rescue his people from captivity. S. Jer. --- The first denotes pastors, the second fathers of families, and Daniel such as live continent. S. Aug. --- All three had been very merciful. S. Chrys. hom. xliii. 1. in Gen. --- Job is placed for holy laymen, and Daniel for people of religious orders. S. Greg. Mor. i. 13. W. --- Hence perhaps Job is placed last, though cotemporary with Moses, as most people suppose. He is not therefore a fabulous personage. H.
↑ 14Ezekiel 14:19
Ver. 19. Pestilence. Sept. "death," as v. 12. (C.) denoting the plague. C. v. 2. H.
↑ 19Ezekiel 14:22
Ver. 22. Left. Pastors will always remain to instruct God's children. W. ---
Doings. Their words (C.) and conduct even in captivity, will evince that they have not been punished unjustly. S. Jer.
--- From them you may judge what sort of men their fathers were; or, as they have been spared for their virtue, you may conclude that the rest would not have perished, if they had been innocent. H.
↑ 22License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses