4<\/strong>. The “blood” is not only that of her children sacrificed to the idols, but judicial and other murders, cf. Eze 22:6<\/em><\/span> ; Eze 22:9<\/em><\/span><\/em>. Cf. Eze 23:37<\/span>, Eze 24:6<\/span>; Eze 24:9<\/span>.<\/p>\n therefore have I made<\/em> ] prophetic perf., cf. “shall mock” Eze 22:5<\/em><\/span>.<\/p>\n Thy days, – <\/B>i. e., of judgment; thy years, i. e., of visitation (compare Eze 20:25<\/span>, Eze 20:39<\/span>).<\/P> A reproach … a mocking – <\/B>Judah shall be like the Ammonites Eze 21:28<\/span>.<\/P><\/p>\n Verse 4<\/span>. Thou art become guilty in thy blood<\/B><\/I>] Thou art guilty of blood.<\/P> <\/p>\n Guilty in thy blood; <\/B>greatly or deeply guilty. <\/P> Thou has shed, <\/B>in abundance, cruelly and perfidiously. <\/P> Defiled thy self; <\/B>as a polluted thing, loathsome to be seen or touched <\/P> Thine idols; <\/B>dunghill gods. <\/P> Caused thy days to draw near; .<\/B> hastened the days of thy sorrows and punishment, of the desolation in Judea, and of thy captivity in Babylon; thou hast shortened thine own peace and my patience. <\/P> Came even unto thy years; <\/B>grown up now to the eldest years in sin, beyond which thou wert not to go: it is the same h effect with that went before. <\/P> Therefore; <\/B>for thy old sin, thou art given up to be a reproach. <\/P> A reproach; <\/B>to be scorned by them, to be branded as a most perfidious, irreligious, unconscionable sort of people, not worthy to live Or else to be a taunt and by-word among all nations; thus it was Psa 44:13<\/span>; Jer 24:9<\/span>. <\/P> To all countries<\/B> that were round about them, or, farther off, had heard of them. <\/P> <\/p>\n 4. thy days<\/B>the shorterperiod, namely, that of the siege.<\/I> <\/P> thy years<\/B>the longerperiod of the captivity.<\/I> The “days” and “years”express that she is ripe for punishment.<\/P><\/p>\n Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed<\/strong>,…. Not only she contracted guilt by the innocent blood she shed, but she was tried and found guilty; her guilt was notorious, plain, and evident, as well as exceeding great, and much aggravated:<\/p>\n and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made<\/strong>: she not only made them, in doing which she sinned; but polluted herself with them, by worshipping them; her mind and conscience were defiled with them; and which brought such a stain and pollution, as could not be removed by anything that she could do: there are both pollution and guilt in sin, and neither can be removed but by the blood of Christ; and, unless removed that way, punishment must follow:<\/p>\n and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years<\/strong>; to full age, to ripeness for judgment; she had hastened by her sins her days of affliction and distress appointed for her, and was come to years of maturity to suffer for her sins; the years of her captivity, which would soon take place; years in which she would have no pleasure:<\/p>\n therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the Heathen, and a mocking to all countries<\/strong>; who, instead of praising them for their idolatry, would deride them for leaving the God of their fathers, which they did not; and insult over them in their affliction and distress, though they joined with them in idolatrous practices.<\/p>\n (4) Thy days . . . thy years.<\/strong>Viz., of judgment and visitation. The Rabbinical commentators interpret the days <\/em>of <\/em>the destruction of Jerusalem, and the years <\/em>of the captivity in Babylon.<\/p>\n A mocking to all countries.<\/strong>This is frequently spoken of in Ezekiel, and is the necessary result in all ages of the contrast between high professions and inconsistent performance. Israels law stood far above the legislation of any other nation of the period, but the habitual conduct of her people was in utter disregard of that law. The effect was the same as at a later day, when St. Paul said, The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you (Rom. 2:24<\/span>), just as the same evils and the same hindrances to the spread of the Gospel now result from the unworthy lives of Christians. But the Jews peculiarly exposed themselves to derision by their claim, as the chosen people of God, to universal and everlasting dominion, contrasted with their present overthrow and desolation; and this desolation was a punishment for the outrageous sins of a people whose whole national existence was based upon a call to peculiar holiness.<\/p>\n 4<\/strong>. <\/strong> Therefore <\/strong> This is not God’s will, but hers. She has defiled herself, and by her sins hastened the day and the year of punishment which repentance could have postponed or averted.<\/p>\n Eze 22:4<\/span><\/em><\/strong>. <\/strong>Thou hast caused thy days to draw near<\/em><\/strong><\/strong> “Thou hast advanced the time of thy punishment, by heaping up the measure of thine iniquities.” Instead of Thou art become guilty in thy blood, <\/em>at the beginning of this verse, Houbigant reads, Thou art become obnoxious to the blood which thou hast shed, <\/em>&c. <\/p>\n Eze 22:4 Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come [even] unto thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.<\/p>\n Ver. 4. Thou hast caused thy days.<\/strong> ] Thou hast accelerated thy punishment, as the old world did.<\/p>\n days. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), App-6, for the judgment inflicted in them. <\/p>\n come even unto. Some codices, with Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read “hast entered the time of”. <\/p>\n have I made thee a reproach . . . mocking. Reference to Pentateuch (Deu 28:37). These words occur nowhere else. App-92. <\/p>\n heathen = nations. <\/p>\n that thou: Eze 22:2, 2Ki 21:16 <\/p>\n and thou hast: Num 32:14, Mat 23:32, Mat 23:33, 1Th 2:16 <\/p>\n have I: Eze 5:14, Eze 5:15, Eze 16:57, Eze 21:28, Lev 26:32, Deu 28:37, Deu 29:24, 1Ki 9:7, 2Ch 7:20, Psa 44:13, Psa 44:14, Psa 79:4, Psa 89:41, Psa 89:42, Jer 18:16, Jer 24:9, Jer 44:8, Lam 2:15, Lam 2:16, Dan 9:16 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Neh 2:17 – a reproach Eze 22:3 – that her Eze 23:7 – with all their Eze 23:32 – thou shalt be<\/p>\n Eze 22:4. Caused thy days to draw near referred to the closeness of the final downfall of the city. Made thee a reproach is past tense in form and to some extent it was so, for the bulk of the men of Judah were already in Babylon. However, the last act of the great drama was yet to come when tiie city would he destroyed by the army of the Babylonians.<\/p>\n Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come [even] unto thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries. 4. … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 22:4”<\/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-20991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20991","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=20991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20991"}],"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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