3<\/strong>. The two kingdoms are represented ideally as already existing in Egypt. This is not so far from the truth. The great tribes of Judah and Ephraim from the first stood apart, and in their attitude there lay already the germs of the two kingdoms, as appears in the song of Deborah. On the idea of the prophet that idolatry was practised in Egypt, cf. ch. Eze 20:8<\/span>, Eze 16:26<\/span>.<\/p>\n They committed whoredoms in Egypt; <\/B>when they came down into Egypt, and sojourned there: possibly they might commit bodily whoredoms, but spiritual whoredoms, i.e. idolatry, they did certainly commit, as appears Jos 24:14<\/span>; Eze 20:7<\/span>,8<\/span>, which see; in a low condition, by converse with the idolatrous Egyptians they fell in with their idolatry. <\/P> In their youth; <\/B>early; though it is no where said when they began, yet by this it appears that it was not long after their coming down into Egypt. <\/P> There were their breasts pressed:<\/B> this and what follows is an allusion, which illustrates what was before spoken; while they were constant to God and his worship, they were as beautiful, chaste, and lovely virgins; when seduced to idolatry, they became as loathsome harlots or strumpets. <\/P> <\/p>\n 3.<\/B> Even so early in theirhistory as their Egyptian sojourn, they committed idolatries (see onEze 20:6-8<\/span>; Joshua24. 14<\/span>). <\/P> in their youth<\/B>anaggravation of their sin. It was at the very time of their receivingextraordinary favors from God (Eze 16:6<\/span>;Eze 16:22<\/span>). <\/P> they bruised<\/B>namely,the Egyptians.<\/P><\/p>\n And they committed whoredoms in Egypt<\/strong>,…. When they were but one body, one nation; and while they sojourned as strangers in that land they learned and practised the idolatries of it, Jos 24:14<\/span>, and so the Targum,<\/p>\n “and they erred in Egypt, after the worship of their idols they erred, and there they corrupted their works:”<\/p>\n they committed whoredoms in their youth<\/strong>; as soon as they were come out of Egypt, and were formed into a political and ecclesiastical state, had the law of God given them, and promised obedience to him, and were espoused by him, which times are called the days of their youth and espousal, Jer 2:2<\/span>, and then were they guilty of whoredom, or spiritual adultery, which idolatry, in making and worshipping the golden calf, after the manner of Egypt; and in joining themselves to Baalpeor, the god of the Moabites, Ex 32:1<\/span>;<\/p>\n there were their breasts pressed, there they bruised the teats of their virginity<\/strong>; that is, the Egyptians, who drew them into idolatry, and with whom they committed it; which is expressed by the actions of adulterous persons, suggesting that, before this, they were as chaste and pure virgins to God, adhered to his worship, and served him only, and were not defiled with the superstition and idolatry of the Heathens: or, “they made l the teats or paps of their virginity”; that is, made them swell and increase, being impregnated by them, and their idolatry completed; or to move and heave being pressed.<\/p>\n l “fecerant mammas”, Starckius; “fecerent ut earam mammae agrerent”, Gussetius; “sese commovendo scilicet, in contentione libidinis aestuantes, et pectoris anheli reciprocationem sequentes”, ib. p. 652. “ibi subagitarunt ubera virginum”, Coeccius.<\/p>\n (3) In Egypt.<\/strong>The idolatries of Israel in Egypt have already been spoken of in the Note to Eze. 20:8<\/span>. (See also Eze. 23:19<\/span> below.)<\/p>\n 3<\/strong>. <\/strong> They committed whoredoms in Egypt <\/strong> It is plain from this that Ezekiel knew that Israel had broken faith with the one God in Goshen. Baethgen has convincingly proved that Kuenen’s idea of an original Hebrew polytheism has not the slightest foundation. He shows that when the prophets were battling for monotheism they were not striving for a new thing, but for the ancient imperishable treasure which the nation did not prize and revere enough. Moses and the prophets, as little as Jesus, wished to proclaim a new God. They only revealed another phase of the character and will of the “Ancient of Days.” “As far back as Israelitish history can be followed into the past the legitimate worship of Israel was the worship of the one God, and the worship of other gods was regarded as an apostasy.” (See Baethgen, Der Gott Israels und die Gotter der Heiden, <\/em> 1888.)<\/p>\n Eze 23:3 And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.<\/p>\n Ver. 3. And they committed whoredoms in Egypt.<\/strong> ] See Eze 20:8 Jos 24:14<\/span> . <\/p>\n <\/p>\n They committed whoredoms in their youth.<\/strong> ] Like the strumpet Quartilla in Petronius, who said, Iunonem ego meam iratam habeam, si unquam me meminerim virginem fuisse.<\/em> a<\/em> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n There were their breasts pressed.<\/strong> ] Violatam virginitatem mammarum laxitas consequitur.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n a<\/em> Petron. Satyricon.<\/p>\n whoredoms = idolatries. <\/p>\n Egypt. Compare Eze 20:7, Eze 20:8. pressed = handled, as in verses: Eze 23:8, Eze 23:21. <\/p>\n bruised = squeezed (in natural use). <\/p>\n in Egypt: Eze 20:8, Lev 17:7, Deu 29:16, Jos 24:14 <\/p>\n in their: Eze 23:8, Eze 23:19, Eze 23:21, Eze 16:22, Hos 2:15 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Deu 21:8 – lay not Jos 5:9 – I rolled away 2Ki 21:15 – since the day Psa 106:39 – went Psa 129:1 – from Jer 2:2 – the kindness Jer 7:25 – the day Jer 22:21 – This Jer 31:19 – I did Jer 32:30 – from Eze 16:15 – and playedst Eze 16:26 – with the Eze 20:7 – defile Eze 23:27 – and thy Eze 23:34 – and pluck Eze 23:44 – so went<\/p>\n Eze 23:3. Committed whoredoms in Egypt, The two separate kingdoms had not come into existence when the children of Israel were living in Egypt and did not tor a number of years. But these people were infected with the disease while there and participated in the unrighteous conduct. Its effect upon them was indicated by their making the golden calf in less than three months after leaving the land. The expressions In this verse refer to the unlawful intimacies permitted by an unfaithful wife preparatory to the act of adultery.<\/p>\n 23:3 And they committed harlotries in {b} Egypt; they committed harlotries in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.<\/p>\n (b) They became idolaters after the manner of the Egyptians.<\/p>\n And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity. 3. The two kingdoms are represented ideally as already existing in Egypt. This is not so far from the truth. 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