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Ezekiel
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The LORD’s word came to me, saying, “Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and tell them, ‘When I bring the sword on a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and set him for their watchman, See also: Ezekiel 33:30Ezekiel 14:17Ezekiel 33:17if, when he sees the sword come on the land, he blows the trumpet and warns the people, See also: Hosea 8:1Nehemiah 4:20Nehemiah 4:18then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet and doesn’t heed the warning, if the sword comes and takes him away, his blood will be on his own head. See also: Ezekiel 18:13Acts 18:6Ezekiel 33:9He heard the sound of the trumpet and didn’t take warning. His blood will be on him; whereas if he had heeded the warning, he would have delivered his soul. See also: Hebrews 11:7Exodus 9:19-21John 8:39But if the watchman sees the sword come and doesn’t blow the trumpet, and the people aren’t warned, and the sword comes and takes any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at the watchman’s hand.’ See also: Ezekiel 3:18-202 Samuel 4:11Ezekiel 33:8-9“So you, son of man, I have set you a watchman to the house of Israel. Therefore hear the word from my mouth, and give them warnings from me. See also: Jeremiah 26:2Ezekiel 3:17-21Ezekiel 2:7-8When I tell the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you will surely die,’ and you don’t speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man will die in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at your hand. See also: Acts 20:26-27Ezekiel 33:6Ezekiel 33:14Nevertheless, if you warn the wicked of his way to turn from it, and he doesn’t turn from his way; he will die in his iniquity, but you have delivered your soul. See also: Ezekiel 3:19Acts 20:26Proverbs 15:10“You, son of man, tell the house of Israel: ‘You say this, “Our transgressions and our sins are on us, and we pine away in them. How then can we live?”’ See also: Ezekiel 37:11Isaiah 49:14Ezekiel 4:17Tell them, ‘“As I live,” says the Lord GOD, “I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why will you die, house of Israel?”’ See also: 1 Timothy 2:4Ezekiel 18:232 Peter 3:9“You, son of man, tell the children of your people, ‘The righteousness of the righteous will not deliver him in the day of his disobedience. And as for the wickedness of the wicked, he will not fall by it in the day that he turns from his wickedness; neither will he who is righteous be able to live by it in the day that he sins. See also: 2 Chronicles 7:14Ezekiel 33:18-19Romans 3:25When I tell the righteous that he will surely live, if he trusts in his righteousness and commits iniquity, none of his righteous deeds will be remembered; but he will die in his iniquity that he has committed. See also: Ezekiel 18:24Hebrews 10:38Ezekiel 18:4Again, when I say to the wicked, “You will surely die,” if he turns from his sin and does that which is lawful and right, See also: Ezekiel 18:27Isaiah 55:7Jeremiah 18:7-8if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which he had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity, he will surely live. He will not die. See also: Ezekiel 20:11Luke 19:8Exodus 22:1-4None of his sins that he has committed will be remembered against him. He has done that which is lawful and right. He will surely live. See also: Isaiah 43:25Ezekiel 18:22Micah 7:18-19“‘Yet the children of your people say, “The way of the Lord is not fair;” but as for them, their way is not fair. See also: Matthew 25:24-26Ezekiel 18:29Ezekiel 18:25When the righteous turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he will even die therein. See also: Ezekiel 33:12-13Hebrews 10:382 Peter 2:20-22When the wicked turns from his wickedness and does that which is lawful and right, he will live by it. See also: Ezekiel 18:27-28Ezekiel 33:14Yet you say, “The way of the Lord is not fair.” House of Israel, I will judge every one of you after his ways.’” See also: Matthew 16:27Ezekiel 18:25Ezekiel 33:17In the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, one who had escaped out of Jerusalem came to me, saying, “The city has been defeated!” See also: Ezekiel 1:2Jeremiah 39:1-82 Chronicles 36:17-21Now the LORD’s hand had been on me in the evening, before he who had escaped came; and he had opened my mouth until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no longer mute. See also: Ezekiel 1:3Ezekiel 24:26-27Ezekiel 3:26-27The LORD’s word came to me, saying, “Son of man, those who inhabit the waste places in the land of Israel speak, saying, ‘Abraham was one, and he inherited the land; but we are many. The land is given us for inheritance.’ See also: Isaiah 51:2Ezekiel 33:27Acts 7:5Therefore tell them, ‘The Lord GOD says: “You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood. So should you possess the land? See also: Jeremiah 7:9-10Genesis 9:4Deuteronomy 12:16You stand on your sword, you work abomination, and every one of you defiles his neighbor’s wife. So should you possess the land?”’ See also: Zephaniah 3:3Genesis 27:40Micah 2:1-2“You shall tell them, ‘The Lord GOD says: “As I live, surely those who are in the waste places will fall by the sword. I will give whoever is in the open field to the animals to be devoured, and those who are in the strongholds and in the caves will die of the pestilence. See also: Jeremiah 42:221 Samuel 13:6Ezekiel 39:4I will make the land a desolation and an astonishment. The pride of her power will cease. The mountains of Israel will be desolate, so that no one will pass through. See also: Ezekiel 7:24Micah 7:13Jeremiah 44:2Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I have made the land a desolation and an astonishment because of all their abominations which they have committed.”’ See also: Ezekiel 6:7Jeremiah 5:1-9Ezekiel 7:27“As for you, son of man, the children of your people talk about you by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak to one another, everyone to his brother, saying, ‘Please come and hear what the word is that comes out from the LORD.’ See also: Matthew 15:8Jeremiah 23:35Matthew 22:16-17They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain. See also: Psalms 78:36-37Matthew 13:22James 1:22-24Behold, you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument; for they hear your words, but they don’t do them. See also: Mark 6:20Mark 4:16-17John 5:35“When this comes to pass—behold, it comes—then they will know that a prophet has been among them.” See also: Jeremiah 28:9Ezekiel 2:51 Samuel 3:19-20
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)14 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 33:2
Ver. 2. Take. Before (C. iii. 17.) God made the choice, (C.) as he does here, v. 7.
He confirms the authority of those who are appointed to govern. --- Meanest.
Lit. "last," (H.) which seems to denote such as are chosen without regard to their dignity or obscurity in life. Gen. xlvii. 2. and 3
K. xii. 31. C. --- Pastors are not excused from admonishing the people for fear of danger or despair of reclaiming them, as each one is bound to do his duty.
S. Jer. W.
↑ 2Ezekiel 33:6
Ver. 6. Iniquity, not regarding the admonitions of his pastor; (C. iii. 18. C.) or rather of conscience, when the guide proves faithless and silent, as in this instance. H. --- The people were persuaded that none suffered except for some fault. v. 10. Jer. xxxi. 30. Dan. xiii. 52. Gen. xliv.
16. The author of the Book of Job takes great pains to remove this mistake.
God sometimes sends crosses for a trial, (C.) and to increase the merit of his servants; though it be very true, (H.)
"no one is miserable except he deserve it." S. Aug.
↑ 6Ezekiel 33:8
Ver. 8. Surely die a temporal, (Theod.) or rather an eternal death. S. Jer.
↑ 8Ezekiel 33:10
Ver. 10. Live? They suppose their case to be desperate, as their fathers had sinned. C. xviii. The prophet shews that none are punished except for their own faults, (C.) and that "each one has free-will to be saved or to be lost." S.
Jer.
↑ 10Ezekiel 33:11
Ver. 11. Desire. The sinner's damnation is not an object of God's pleasure. C.
xviii. 23. C. ---
He has an antecedent will to save all. He knocks at the door of our heart, (Apoc. iii. 20.) and if man do what depends on him, nothing will be wanting on the part of God. S. Tho. i. 2. q. 109.
and 112. W.
↑ 11Ezekiel 33:12
Ver. 12. Hurt him. God effaces all past crimes: yet a relapse makes them as it were revive, and is pardoned with more difficulty. Mat. xviii. 35. Some read, "In what day the converted sinner groans, he shall be saved," as if they had taken in part of Is. xxx. 15.
↑ 12Ezekiel 33:17
Ver. 17. Equitable; as we are much more inclined to vice than to virtue. This argumentation is inconclusive, as God owes nothing to man; and what good the latter does, is an effect of His grace. The propensity to evil is no excuse, as man is still free. He is judged according to the dispositions in which he is found at the hour of death; yet we must not infer, that those who have spent their lives in sinning will be no worse treated than the person who dies guilty of a single crime.
↑ 17Ezekiel 33:21
Ver. 21. Twelfth. Rom. Sept. "tenth." Syr. "eleventh year,...in the twelfth month;"
which Theodoret thinks more probable, as the city was taken in the ninth of the fourth month of that year. Yet even so, it is strange that the news should not arrive before. Some think (C.) that the messenger came also to announce what happened after the death of Godolias. Sanct. ---
Captivity. Here it is evident that the prophet dates from that event. C. i. &c. H.
--- As he prophesied on the very day when the city was besieged, (C. xxiv. 2.) so (v. 26.) he foretold that one should come three years after to inform him of the capture. W. --- Then the people would believe him, (ib. v. 27. C.) and he would open his mouth boldly. v. 22. H.
↑ 21Ezekiel 33:24
Ver. 24. Places. He has answered those who despaired. v. 10. Now he turns to the presumptuous, who expected to be treated like Abraham, though they did not imitate his virtues.
C. --- They perhaps entertained these sentiments before the death of Godolias, thinking to establish themselves in the land. Afterwards the prophet Jeremias could not prevail on them to remain, though God promised them security.
↑ 24Ezekiel 33:25
Ver. 25. To them. Grabe marks to v. 27. Thus saith, &c. as wanting in the Sept.
though not in the Alex. copy. S. Jerom reckons eight verses or lines omitted.
H. --- The Comp. and Theodoret read them with some variations. --- The blood.
It must be carefully extracted. Gen. ix. 4. Lev. vii. 26.
--- Uncleannesses; idols, in which you trust.
↑ 25Ezekiel 33:26
Ver. 26. Swords, thinking to live thereby, (Gen. xxvii. 40.) and to be secure. But I will disarm you. The pestilence shall find out those in the rocks. v. 27.
↑ 26Ezekiel 33:30
Ver. 30. Walls, the resort of idle people. C.
↑ 30Ezekiel 33:31
Ver. 31. In to a religious meeting. Chal. Perhaps they came on the sabbath to his house. Yet they made a just and song of his instructions. C. --- They heard them with pleasure, but did not reform their lives. H.
↑ 31Ezekiel 33:33
Ver. 33. Coming. The desolation of Jerusalem, (H.) and what I have foretold, hath already taken place; or, the news will presently arrive: as it did the following morning. v. 21. C.
↑ 33License: 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