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<p id="Chapter22" align="center">Commentary by A. R. FAUSSET<br>CHAPTER 22
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<p id="Eze22_1"><a onclick="return mV('Eze',22,'1-31');">Eze 22:1-31</a>. GOD'S JUDGMENT ON THE SINFULNESS OF JERUSALEM. <p>Repetition of the charges in the twentieth chapter only that there they were stated in an historical review of the <i>past</i> and present; here the <i>present</i> sins of the nation exclusively are brought forward.
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<p id="Eze22_2"><b>2.</b> See <a onclick="return mV('Eze',20,4);">Eze 20:4</a>; that is, "Wilt thou <i>not</i> judge?" etc. (compare <a onclick="return mV('Eze',23,36);">Eze 23:36</a>).
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<br><br><b>the bloody city</b>—literally, "the city of bloods"; so called on account of murders perpetrated in her, and sacrifices of children to Molech (<a onclick="return mV('Eze',22,3,4,6,9);">Eze 22:3-4, 6, 9</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Eze',24,6,9);">24:6, 9</a>).
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<p id="Eze22_3"><b>3. sheddeth blood...that her time may come</b>—Instead of deriving advantage from her bloody sacrifices to idols, she only thereby brought on herself "the time" of her punishment.
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<br><br><b>against herself</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Pro',8,36);">Pro 8:36</a>).
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<p id="Eze22_4"><b>4. thy days</b>—the shorter period, namely, that of the <i>siege.</i>
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<br><br><b>thy years</b>—the longer period of the <i>captivity.</i> The "days" and "years" express that she is ripe for punishment.
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<p id="Eze22_5"><b>5. infamous</b>—They mockingly call thee, "Thou polluted one in name (<i>Margin</i>), and full of confusion" [FAIRBAIRN], (referring to the tumultuous violence prevalent in it). Thus the nations "far and near" mocked her as at once sullied in character and in actual fact lawless. What a sad contrast to the Jerusalem once designated "'the holy city!"
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<p id="Eze22_6"><b>6.</b> Rather, "The princes...each according to his power, were in thee, to shed blood" (as if this was the only object of their existence). "Power," literally, "arm"; they, who ought to have been patterns of justice, made their own arm of might their only law.
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<p id="Eze22_7"><b>7. set light by</b>—Children have made light of, disrespected, father...(<a onclick="return mV('Deu',27,16);">Deu 27:16</a>). At <a onclick="return mV('Eze',22,'7-12');">Eze 22:7-12</a> are enumerated the sins committed in violation of Moses' law.
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<p id="Eze22_9"><b>9. men that carry tales</b>—<i>informers,</i> who by misrepresentations cause innocent blood to be shed (<a onclick="return mV('Lev',19,16);">Lev 19:16</a>). Literally, "one who goes to and fro as a <i>merchant.</i>"
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<p id="Eze22_10"><b>10. set apart for pollution</b>—that is, set apart <i>as unclean</i> (<a onclick="return mV('Lev',18,19);">Lev 18:19</a>).
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<p id="Eze22_12"><b>12. forgotten me</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Deu',32,18);">Deu 32:18</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',2,32);">Jer 2:32</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',3,21);">3:21</a>).
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<p id="Eze22_13"><b>13. smitten mine hand</b>—in token of the indignant vengeance which I will execute on thee (see on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Eze/Eze021.html#Eze21_17">Eze 21:17</a>).
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<p id="Eze22_14"><b>14.</b> (<a onclick="return mV('Eze',21,7);">Eze 21:7</a>).
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<p id="Eze22_15"><b>15. consume thy filthiness out of thee</b>—the object of God in scattering the Jews.
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<p id="Eze22_16"><b>16. take thine inheritance in thyself</b>—Formerly thou wast Mine inheritance; but now, full of guilt, thou art no longer Mine, but <i>thine own inheritance to thyself;</i> "in the sight of the heathen," that is, even they shall see that, now that thou hast become a captive, thou art no longer owned as Mine [VATABLUS]. FAIRBAIRN and others needlessly take the <i>Hebrew</i> from a different root, "thou shalt be <i>polluted by</i> ('in,' [HENDERSON]) <i>thyself,</i>" etc.; the heathen shall regard thee as a polluted thing, who hast brought thine own reproach on thyself.
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<p id="Eze22_18"><b>18. dross...brass</b>—Israel has become a worthless compound of the dross of silver (implying not merely corruption, but <i>degeneracy</i> from good to bad, <a onclick="return mV('Isa',1,22);">Isa 1:22</a>, especially offensive) and of the baser metals. Hence the people must be thrown into the furnace of judgment, that the bad may be consumed, and the good separated (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',6,29,30);">Jer 6:29-30</a>).
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<p id="Eze22_21"></a> <a name="Eze22_22"></a>
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<p id="Eze22_23"><b>23.</b> From this verse to the end he shows the general corruption of all ranks.
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<p id="Eze22_24"><b>24. land...not cleansed</b>—not cleared or cultivated; all a scene of desolation; a fit emblem of the moral wilderness state of the people.
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<br><br><b>nor rained upon</b>—a mark of divine "indignation"; as the early and latter rain, on which the productiveness of the land depended, was one of the great covenant blessings. Joel (<a onclick="return mV('Joe',2,23);">Joe 2:23</a>) promises the return of the former and latter rain, with the restoration of God's favor.
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<p id="Eze22_25"><b>25. conspiracy</b>—The false prophets have conspired both to propagate error and to oppose the messages of God's servants. <i>They</i> are mentioned first, as their bad influence extended the widest.
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<br><br><b>prey</b>—Their aim was greed of gain, "treasure, and precious things" (<a onclick="return mV('Hsa',6,9);">Hsa 6:9</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Zep',3,3);">Zep 3:3-4</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Mat',23,14);">Mat 23:14</a>).
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<br><br><b>made...many widows</b>—by occasioning, through false prophecies, the war with the Chaldeans in which the husbands fell.
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<p id="Eze22_26"><b>26. Her priests</b>—whose "lips should have kept knowledge" (<a onclick="return mV('Mal',2,7);">Mal 2:7</a>).
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<br><br><b>violated</b>—not simply <i>transgressed;</i> but, <i>have done violence to</i> the law, by wresting it to wrong ends, and putting wrong constructions on it.
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<br><br><b>put no difference between the holy and profane,</b> etc.—made no distinction between the clean and unclean (<a onclick="return mV('Lev',10,10);">Lev 10:10</a>), the Sabbath and other days, sanctioning violations of that holy day. "Holy" means, <i>what is dedicated to God;</i> "profane," <i>what is in common use;</i> "unclean," <i>what is forbidden to be eaten;</i> "clean," <i>what is lawful to be eaten.</i>
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<br><br><b>I am profaned among them</b>—They abuse My name to false or unjust purposes.
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<p id="Eze22_27"><b>27. princes</b>—who should have employed the influence of their position for the people's welfare, made "gain" their sole aim.
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<br><br><b>wolves</b>—notorious for fierce and ravening cruelty (<a onclick="return mV('Mic',3,2,3,9,11);">Mic 3:2-3, 9-11</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jhn',10,12);">Jhn 10:12</a>).
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<p id="Eze22_28"><b>28.</b> Referring to the false assurances of peace with which the prophets flattered the people, that they should not submit to the king of Babylon (see on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Eze/Eze013.html#Eze13_10">Eze 13:10</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Eze',21,29);">Eze 21:29</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',6,14);">Jer 6:14</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',23,16,17);">23:16-17</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',27,9,10);">27:9-10</a>).
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<p id="Eze22_29"><b>29. The people</b>—put last, after the mention of those in office. Corruption had spread downwards through the whole community.
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<br><br><b>wrongfully</b>—that is, "without cause," gratuitously, without the stranger proselyte giving any just provocation; nay, he of all others being one who ought to have been won to the worship of Jehovah by kindness, instead of being alienated by oppression; especially as the Israelites were commanded to remember that they themselves had been "strangers in Egypt" (<a onclick="return mV('Exd',22,21);">Exd 22:21</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Exd',23,9);">23:9</a>).
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<p id="Eze22_30"><b>30. the hedge</b>—the wall (see on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Eze/Eze013.html#Eze13_5">Eze 13:5</a>); image for <i>leading the people to repentance.</i>
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<br><br><b>the gap</b>—the breach (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',106,23);">Psa 106:23</a>); image for <i>interceding between the people and God</i> (<a onclick="return mV('Gen',20,7);">Gen 20:7</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Exd',32,11);">Exd 32:11</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Num',16,48);">Num 16:48</a>).
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<br><br><b>I found none</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',5,1);">Jer 5:1</a>) —not that literally there was not a righteous man in the city. For Jeremiah, Baruch, etc., were still there; but Jeremiah had been forbidden to pray for the people (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',11,14);">Jer 11:14</a>), as being doomed to wrath. None now, of the godly, knowing the desperate state of the people, and God's purpose as to them, was <i>willing</i> longer to interpose between God's wrath and them. And none "among them," that is, among those just enumerated as guilty of such sins (<a onclick="return mV('Eze',22,'25-29');">Eze 22:25-29</a>), was morally <i>able</i> for such an office.
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<p id="Eze22_31"><b>31. their own way...recompensed upon their heads</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Eze',9,10);">Eze 9:10</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Eze',11,21);">11:21</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Eze',16,43);">16:43</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Pro',1,31);">Pro 1:31</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',3,11);">Isa 3:11</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',6,19);">Jer 6:19</a>).
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