2<\/strong>. prophets of Israel that prophesy<\/em> ] There seems a kind of sarcasm on “prophets of Israel,” those whom Israel accepts and delights to regard as prophets (Mic 2:11<\/span>); and a similar sarcasm in “that prophesy.” They prophesied and that without limit: their mouths were always full of “thus saith the Lord” ( Eze 13:6<\/em><\/span>). LXX., however, reads rather differently. Jer 18:18<\/span> shews how the people regarded their prophets; they had faith in them and believed that Jehovah spoke by them, while such men as Jeremiah they judged to be false prophets: Come, let us devise devices against Jeremiah, for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet<\/em>. Cf. Jer 43:2<\/span>.<\/p>\n their own hearts<\/em> ] The inspiration of these prophets came from their own hearts or minds their own thoughts and hopes, and judgment upon the situation in which they were placed. They had nothing higher than human wisdom, while the inspiration of the true prophet came from the spirit of God.<\/p>\n Verse 2<\/span>. That prophesy out of their own hearts<\/B><\/I>] Who are neither<\/I> inspired<\/I> nor sent<\/I> by ME. They are prophets out of their own<\/I> hearts<\/I>. They have their mission from their own assumption<\/I>, and proceed in it from their own presumption<\/I>. Such either go of themselves<\/I>, or are sent by man<\/I>. Such prophets, ministers, preachers, and clergy have been a curse to the Church and to the world for some thousands of years.<\/P> <\/p>\n Prophesy; declare aforehand what I will do. <\/P> Against the prophets; against prince and people first, next against prophets and prophetesses; against the former in the foregoing chapters, against the latter in this chapter. <\/P> Of Israel, because approved of Israel, encouraged by Israel, and followed; but not prophets of the Lord, he sent them not. Whether these were in Babylon, or in Jerusalem, some inquiry is made; probably these false prophets were in both places. <\/P> That prophesy; foretell what is pleasing to the Jews, a sudden return out of captivity, with the vessels of the Lords house, and prosperity in their own land. <\/P> Out of their own hearts; but all their promising words are of themselves, out of their own deceiving hearts, not from God, and so all will be lies. <\/P> Hear ye the word of the Lord; cease to deceive my people, and attend now to what God speaks of you. <\/P> <\/p>\n 2. that prophesy<\/B>namely, aspeedy return to Jerusalem. <\/P> out of . . . ownhearts<\/B>alluding to the words of Jeremiah (Jer 23:16<\/span>;Jer 23:26<\/span>); that is, what theyprophesied was what they and the people wished;<\/I> the wish wasfather to the thought. The people wished<\/I> to be deceived, andso were deceived. They were inexcusable, for they had among them trueprophets (who spoke not their own<\/I> thoughts, but as they weremoved by the Holy Ghost, 2Pe 1:21<\/span>),whom they might have known to be such, but they did not wish to know(Joh 3:19<\/span>).<\/P><\/p>\n Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel<\/strong>,…. Who called themselves so, and were accounted such by others; though they were not true, but false prophets; and so the Targum calls them:<\/p>\n that prophesy<\/strong>; that is, smooth things to the people; promising a speedy return from the captivity; or that Jerusalem should not be taken by the Chaldeans, and the inhabitants of it, and of the land, be carried captive:<\/p>\n and say thou unto them that prophesy out of their own hearts<\/strong>; who were not sent of God, nor spake from him; but of themselves, what came into their heads, and was agreeable to their fancies, imaginations, and carnal hearts; such are false teachers, that go forth without being sent, and teach not according to the word of God, but according to their own carnal reasonings; so the Targum,<\/p>\n “according to the will of their hearts;”<\/p>\n what they pleased themselves:<\/p>\n hear ye the word of the Lord<\/strong>; which came from the Lord himself, and not from man, meaning the following prophecy; so the written word of God should be attended to, both by teachers and hearers, as the only rule of faith and practice; see Isa 8:20<\/span>.<\/p>\n 2<\/strong>. <\/strong> Prophets of Israel that prophesy <\/strong> Dr. Davidson sees a kind of sarcasm in this phrase. The false prophets were indeed prophets of Israel, though not prophets of Jehovah. The people eagerly grasped their smooth sayings as true and repudiated Jeremiah and Ezekiel as the false prophets (Jer 18:18<\/span>; Jer 43:2<\/span>). <\/p>\n Prophesy out of their own hearts <\/strong> Their own wish to be popular and please the people (Eze 13:19<\/span>; Jer 23:16<\/span>) colors their message. They are the mouthpiece of the people, Ezekiel speaks the word which is opposed to his natural desire. These men speak the smooth things which their own selfish hope suggests and their own human judgment seeks to sustain (Mic 3:8<\/span>; compare Jer 28:8-9<\/span>).<\/p>\n Eze 13:2 Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say thou unto them that prophesy out of their own hearts, Hear ye the word of the LORD;<\/p>\n Ver. 2. Prophesy against the prophets.<\/strong> ] Illis enim crania mala feruntur accepts.<\/em> See Jer 23:32-33<\/span> ; Jer 23:38<\/span> . <\/p>\n <\/p>\n That prophesy out of their own hearts.<\/strong> ] Whose prophecies came by the will of man, 2Pe 1:21 and not cum privilegio.<\/em> with by right.<\/p>\n Son of man. See note on Eze 2:1. <\/p>\n against = concerning. Some codices, and the special reading called Sevir (App-34), with Aramaean, Septuagint, and Syriac, read “against”. <\/p>\n the prophets. See the Structure, “M”, above. The reference is to the false prophets of Israel. Compare Jer 5:30, Jer 5:31; Jer 5:23, Jer 5:9-32; Jer 27:14; Jer 29:8, Jer 29:9, Jer 29:22, Jer 29:23. <\/p>\n prophesy against: Eze 14:9, Eze 14:10, Eze 22:25, Eze 22:28, 2Ch 18:18-24, Isa 9:15, Isa 56:9-12, Jer 5:31, Jer 6:13, Jer 6:14, Jer 8:10, Jer 14:13-15, Jer 23:2, Jer 23:11-22, Jer 23:25, Jer 23:26, Jer 27:14, Jer 27:18, Jer 28:12-17, Jer 29:8, Jer 29:9, Jer 37:19, Lam 4:13, Mic 3:6, Mic 3:11, Zep 3:4, 2Pe 2:1-3 <\/p>\n prophesy out of: Heb. are prophets out of, Eze 13:3, Eze 13:17, Jer 14:14, Jer 23:16, Jer 23:26 <\/p>\n Hear: Eze 34:7, Eze 34:9, 1Ki 22:19, Isa 1:10, Isa 28:14, Jer 28:15, Jer 29:20-24, Jer 29:31, Jer 29:32, Amo 7:16, Amo 7:17 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Gen 3:5 – God Deu 13:1 – a prophet 1Ki 13:11 – an old prophet Jer 23:14 – in the Lam 2:14 – prophets Eze 2:1 – Son Eze 13:7 – The Lord Eze 16:35 – hear Joh 10:1 – He<\/p>\n FALSE PROPHETS<\/p>\n Out of their own hearts.<\/p>\n Eze 13:2<\/p>\n In the previous chapter Ezekiel denounced the false expectations of the people; here he denounces the false leaders who fed those expectations. Jeremiah joined in the denunciations (Jer 29:21; Jer 29:31).<\/p>\n I. Some of these prophets were conscious knaves, but others were the dupes of their own fancies.They prophesied what they and the people wished, and not what God revealed to them. The source of their messages was their own spirit. Perpetually we are meeting those who have mistaken the voice of their own spirit for that of God. When you wish a thing very much, take care that your wishes do not colour your anticipations. The prophets are compared to foxes, which spoil the vines (Son 2:15), when they ought to have been the repairers of the breaches which had been caused in Gods protecting care by the sins and backslidings of the people.<\/p>\n II. Instead of a work of solid repair, the prophets made a show of making the breaches good.They filled them in only with the untempered cement of their false and vain prognostications, and covered the whole with whitewash. They said, Thus saith the Lord, when God had not spoken. But their words would be swept away as a wall falls before wind, rain, and hailstones. The invasion of the Chaldeans would be the destroying storm before which they and their wall would disappear.<\/p>\n III. Modern counterparts.There are always plenty of false prophets to be found, who, whatever doctrine is in vogue, are ready to countenance and sustain it. But all their work is only to entrap unwary souls, and add to their personal condemnation. The great hailstones and the stormy wind will work their wild fury, in spite of wall or mortar. It becomes us, who are set to be the ministers of Gods Holy Word, to ask ourselves very anxiously, whether we are proclaiming the whole purpose of God, or are pandering to the tastes and whims, the loose doctrine and loose living of our people? It becomes every servant of God to be very watchful, and not to make pillows for carnal ease, nor kerchiefs for ashamed faces. Ah, the lies with which the hearts of Gods people are being made sad! Truly, the Master suffers most at the hands of His friends.<\/p>\n Illustration<\/p>\n In the two classes of prophets here presented to our notice, the one could lay claim, as well as the other, to the internal consciousness of some spiritual thought or idea; the only question was, Whence came the idea? Did it spring up from within, as of itself? or was it presented there by the Spirit of God? Was the minds consciousness of the thoughts and feelings it experienced of its own awakening, or was it awakened by a divine and formal communication from above? If we lose sight of this important distinction, we virtually make no account of what constitutes the fundamental element of a divine revelation, and leave ourselves without a fixed landmark between the movements of Gods Spirit and the capricious workings of human fancy. And confounding thus things that essentially differ in regard to the origin of a revelation, we lay ourselves open to the further error of disparaging the value of a revelation, when made! we totally change it, indeed, and lower its character, and assign it only a kind of higher room among the views and cogitations of mens own imagining.<\/p>\n Eze 13:2-4. Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel So they called themselves, as if none but they had been worthy of the name of Israels prophets, who were indeed Israels deceivers. Say unto them that prophesy out of their own hearts According to their own fancy, without having received any revelation from God. The true prophets often denounced Gods judgments against the false ones: laying to their charge many misdemeanours in their private life and conversation, and upbraiding them for their unfaithfulness in the office they undertook of declaring Gods will to his people. Wo unto the foolish prophets Ignorant and wicked, and who, while they wilfully deceived the people, unthinkingly brought destruction upon themselves. Observe, reader, foolish prophets are not of Gods sending: those whom he sends, he either finds or makes fit for his work. Where he gives warrant, he gives wisdom. That follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing Who utter their own imaginations for true prophecies, and pretend to have visions when they never had any. O Israel, thy prophets, not mine, are like the foxes in the deserts Hungry and ravening, crafty and guileful: deceitful workers, (as the apostle styles such persons, 2Co 11:13,) who craftily insinuate false doctrines into weak and unstable minds, and greedily catch at any appearance of advantage to themselves. Lowth.<\/p>\n 13:2 Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say thou to them that prophesy out of their {a} own hearts, Hear ye the word of the LORD;<\/p>\n (a) After their own fantasy and not as having the revelation of the Lord, Jer 23:16 .<\/p>\n Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say thou unto them that prophesy out of their own hearts, Hear ye the word of the LORD; 2. prophets of Israel that prophesy ] There seems a kind of sarcasm on “prophets of Israel,” those whom Israel accepts and delights to regard … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 13:2”<\/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-20721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20721","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=20721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
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