6<\/strong>. your works<\/em> ] the works of your hands, the idols. All the cumulative phrases in the verse are wanting in LXX. viz. “and made desolate,” “and cease,” “and your works may be abolished.” The term “abolished” is lit. “blotted out.” The rendering “made desolate” is probably right, though as spelled the word might mean “suffer” or “be punished,” R.V. marg., “bear their guilt.” The apparatus of worship in the prophet’s time comprehended (1) the high place, the general name for the sanctuary, which might be a building of various degrees of simplicity or splendour, or perhaps a mere tent; (2) the altar, an essential of course of every high place; (3) the obelisk or sun-pillar, and (4) the idol, with which probably most of the rural high places were provided, as Isa 2:8<\/span> says, Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands. Cf. Jer 2:27-28<\/span>, who complains that their gods (which he describes as “stocks” and “stones”) were as numerous as their cities. With this religious inventory may be compared that given by Hos 3:5<\/span>. Ezekiel does not mention the Ashera, except in the form of the “evergreen tree” (ch. Eze 6:13<\/span>).<\/p>\n Eze 6:6<\/span><\/p>\n That your altars may be laid waste.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n False worship<\/strong><\/p>\n 1<\/strong>. <\/em><\/strong>Where idols and false worship are got into a church or state, they are not easily got out again. Their cities must be destroyed, that their altars and idols may be broken and cease.<\/p>\n 2. <\/strong>See what it is that ruins cities; altars, idols, false worship, mixtures of mans inventions with the Lords pure ordinances. These are great cannon, that batter cities; these are gunpowder, that blow them up; these bring the Lord of hosts to war against them.<\/p>\n 3. <\/strong>Idolatry and false worship do so provoke God, that He will destroy cities, kingdoms, churches, but He will have them out.<\/p>\n 4. <\/strong>Men love to have somewhat of their own in worship; they are not content with what the infinitely wise God commends unto them, but will be adding.<\/p>\n 5. <\/strong>God is not pleased with anything in worship which is not His own; He must prescribe whet way and wherewith He will be worshipped.<\/p>\n 6. <\/strong>Judgments cause idolaters to know the true God from the false. (W. Greenhill, M. A.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n False religion and its doom<\/strong><\/p>\n Man says he wants sincerity and earnestness. What God asks is truth, the one religion which He has revealed.<\/p>\n 1. <\/strong>Certain.<\/p>\n 2. <\/strong>Utter.<\/p>\n 3. <\/strong>Visible.<\/p>\n 4. <\/strong>Expressive.<\/p>\n 5. <\/strong>Contemptuous.<\/p>\n 6. <\/strong>Everlasting.<\/p>\n Apply–<\/p>\n (1)<\/strong> See that your religion is true.<\/p>\n (2)<\/strong> Your worship real. (H. Bonar, D. D.<\/em>)<\/p>\n Mountains and hills with their altars were doomed, now the cities that were of less note than Jerusalem seem particularly to be threatened, because they were idolatrous; according to the number of cities were there gods, Jer 11:13<\/span>. High places and altars set up to the honour of those idols shall be laid waste, and the idols of those lesser cities shall be utterly destroyed. The images or statues that were usually fastened on some pedestal, somewhat high, shall be cut down; and all your costly works for idols, and your pompous preparation for them, shall, with your cities, be abolished for ever, as your sins and abominations deserve. <\/P> <\/p>\n 6. your works<\/B>not gods, as yousupposed, but the mere work of men’s hands (Isa40:18-20<\/span>).<\/P><\/p>\n In all your dwelling places your cities shall be laid waste<\/strong>,…. Which denotes that the desolation should be general, wherever they had cities and places to dwell in; the idolatry being universal, as is said in Jer 2:28<\/span>;<\/p>\n and the high places shall be desolate<\/strong>; meaning such as were in cities; as, before, such as were built upon mountains and hills; see 2Ki 23:5<\/span>;<\/p>\n that your altars may be laid waste and desolate<\/strong>; as they must be, the cities being destroyed in which they were set up:<\/p>\n and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down<\/strong>; such as were made of gold and silver, or of wood and stone; the same words are used for them as in Eze 6:4<\/span>;<\/p>\n and your works may be abolished<\/strong>; not only the works of their hands, but of their brain; whatever they had devised, and was contrary to the pure word and worship of God.<\/p>\n In other words, the Prophet signifies that God would take vengeance on the superstitions of the ten tribes in all places; whence it is clear, that no corner was free from corruption. For, while he names all habitations, he means that they had defiled every habitable place. Wheresoever they dwelt they had erected their altars and strange worship, as another Prophet reproves them; according to the number of your cities were your Gods. (Jer 2:28<\/span>; Jer 11:13<\/span>.) He addresses the Jews there, but the meaning is the same. Hence the Prophet signifies, that it was not a single part only that was polluted with their idolatries, but their filth was spread abroad through the whole land wherever there were any inhabitants. In all your habitations, therefore, the cities shall be deserted When he threatens destruction and desolation to the cities, he means what I have just said, that those places were corrupted by impious superstitions. He adds, and thy high places shall be destroyed or made desolate. Here he explains himself more clearly, that the cities should be reduced to solitude, because their religion was corrupt, and the inhabitants were given up to their own fictions and idolatries. He adds therefore high places to cities, that he may point out the reason of the cities perishing. He adds, that they may be desolate or reduced to a desert: it is again the word חרב , chereb, and your altars may perish. He confirms the same doctrine, namely, that he was so hostile to the cities of Israel because they were all polluted with profane and strange altars. For, as we have said, God had chosen that land to himself, and so all its cities were dedicated to his glory. This, then, might move us to wonder why he threatened them with destruction; for we might readily answer this by saying his counsel was changed. But the Prophet shows, that although the cities themselves were pleasing to God, yet they were hated by him through the corruptions by which they were polluted. Hence he joins high places to altars. Hence a probable conjecture is elicited, that the Israelites did not sacrifice wherever they had erected high places. They had then their own high places when they worshipped false gods, and also their own altars. And since the worship of God was vitiated in both ways, the Prophet, as I have said, here joins them both. <\/p>\n At length he adds, and your idols shall be broken up and cease, or be abolished. Again he uses that reproachful word which I have said is taken from the stench of dung. (Luk 16:15<\/span>.) But it signifies that which is highly esteemed among men is abominated by God, especially when it is worshipped. And your idols, says he, shall be cut off. I have said that this word is derived from heat. It means, that the idols were the cause of their madness, since the Israelites were so corrupted with impure love that they deserted God and looked only at the idols: but he compares the zeal with which idolaters are maddened to impure and brutal lust. At length he adds, your works shall be destroyed. Here he uses a general name, and significantly points out the difference between the pure worship of God and all corruptions. There is no need of a long discussion if we desire to know how God is to be worshipped. For he rejects and excludes our works. If, therefore, we do not obtrude our works, but only follow what God demands, our worship will be pure, but if we add anything of our own, it is an abomination. We see, therefore, that useful instruction can be collected from one word, namely, that all worship is perverse and disapproved by God when men bring anything forward of themselves. For by works he does not here understand idols made of either wood, or stone, or brass, or gold, or silver, but it comprehends likewise whatever men have fashioned, and whatever can be ascribed to them, because they have not taken them from the mouth of God and the commands of his law. <\/p>\n (6) May be abolished.<\/strong>The word abolished <\/em>is a strong one, meaning utterly obliterated, wiped out. This was what Israel should have done to the nations who inhabited Canaan before them; they and their works should have been so utterly blotted out that no temptations from them should have remained. But Israel had failed to observe the Divine command, and now in turn their works, done in imitation of the guilty nations they had supplanted, must be blotted out.<\/p>\n 6<\/strong>. <\/strong> Your works may be abolished <\/strong> Literally, blotted out. <\/em> These heathen high places, altars, obelisks, and idols are all described as the works of their own hands (Isa 2:8<\/span>; Isa 44:17<\/span>; Hos 8:6<\/span>). The worship in which they now pride themselves shall be their ruin and shall fall into ruin. The destruction shall be more thorough than in any previous reformation (2Ki 23:27<\/span>).<\/p>\n “In all your dwelling places the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate, that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your incense altars may be hewn down, and your works may be blotted out, and the slain will fall in the midst of you, and you will know that I am Yahweh.”<\/p>\n The reason for the destruction of Jerusalem and Judah is now laid bare. It was in order to destroy the high places, the altars, the idols and the incense altars, and the behaviour that resulted from them. There was no other way. For over four hundred years they had clung to these and refused to give them up. Now the very things that they had given their hearts to would destroy them. For this would necessitate the destruction of their cities and the death of many of their inhabitants.<\/p>\n By all this they would be faced up with the fact of the living God, of Yahweh. And they would know what He really is, a hater of idolatry and the evil that springs from it.<\/p>\n Eze 6:6 In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.<\/p>\n Ver. 6. In all your dwelling places.<\/strong> ] Omnia everram et evertam funditus.<\/em> I will turn all topsy-turvy. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Your works shall be abolished.<\/strong> ] Those toilsome toys, your idols and monuments of idolatry. This the prophet telleth them again and again, that he might waken them, and work them to repentance.<\/p>\n waste. Reference to Pentateuch (Lev 26:31). App-92. <\/p>\n all your: Isa 6:11, Jer 9:19, Zep 3:7 <\/p>\n the cities: Eze 5:14, Isa 24:1-12, Isa 32:13, Isa 32:14, Isa 64:10, Jer 2:15, Jer 9:11, Jer 10:22, Jer 34:22, Mic 3:12, Zep 1:2-6, Zep 1:18, Zep 3:6 <\/p>\n and the: Eze 16:39, Lev 26:30, Jer 17:3, Hos 10:8 <\/p>\n your altars: Eze 30:13, Isa 2:18, Isa 2:20, Isa 27:9, Hos 10:2, Mic 1:7, Mic 5:13, Zep 1:3, Zep 1:4, Zec 13:2 <\/p>\n your works: Psa 115:8, Isa 1:31, Hab 2:18 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Lev 26:31 – And I will make Eze 6:4 – images Eze 12:19 – that her Eze 23:48 – I cause Eze 35:4 – lay<\/p>\n Eze 6:6. The weakness of false gods was to be further shown in that they could not protect the homes and cities of the country. It is a poor head that cannot take the proper oversight of its own body, yet these images that were worshiped by the people of Israel were powerless to preserve even the altars erected to their worship.<\/p>\n In all your dwelling places the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished. 6. your works ] the works … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 6:6”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
I. <\/strong>False religion: there is such a thing; it may be earnest and zealous, yet false.<\/p>\n
II. <\/strong>Its uselessness: it profits nobody, either here or hereafter; is not acceptable to God.<\/p>\n
III. <\/strong>Its hatefulness: God abhors it; it is outward, untrue, against His revelation; dishonouring, self-exalting.<\/p>\n
IV. <\/strong>Its doom: its condemnation is–<\/p>\nFuente: Biblical Illustrator Edited by Joseph S. Exell<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible <\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
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