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<p id="Chapter15" align="center">Commentary by A. R. FAUSSET<br>CHAPTER 15
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<p id="Eze15_1"><a onclick="return mV('Eze',15,'1-8');">Eze 15:1-8</a>. THE WORTHLESSNESS OF THE VINE AS WOOD ESPECIALLY WHEN BURNT, IS THE IMAGE OF THE WORTHLESSNESS AND GUILT OF THE JEWS, WHO SHALL PASS FROM ONE FIRE TO ANOTHER.
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<p>This chapter represents, in the way of a brief introduction, what the sixteenth chapter details minutely.
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<p id="Eze15_2"><b>2, 3.</b> What has the vine-<i>wood</i> to make it pre-eminent above other forest-<i>wood</i>? Nothing. Nay, the reverse. Other trees yield useful timber, but vine-wood is soft, brittle, crooked, and seldom large; not so much as a "pin" (the large wooden peg used inside houses in the East to hang household articles on, <a onclick="return mV('Isa',22,'23-25');">Isa 22:23-25</a>) can be made of it. Its sole excellency is that it should bear fruit; when it does not bear fruit, it is not only not better, but inferior to other trees: so if God's people lose their distinctive excellency by not bearing fruits of righteousness, they are more unprofitable than the worldly (<a onclick="return mV('Deu',32,32);">Deu 32:32</a>), for they are the vine; the sole end of their being is to bear fruit to His glory (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',80,8,9);">Psa 80:8-9</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',5,1);">Isa 5:1</a>, etc. <a onclick="return mV('Jer',2,21);">Jer 2:21</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Hsa',10,1);">Hsa 10:1</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Mat',21,33);">Mat 21:33</a>). In all respects, except in their being planted by God, the Jews were inferior to other nations, as Egypt, Babylon, etc., for example, in antiquity, extent of territory, resources, military power, attainments in arts and sciences.
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<br><br><b><i>or than</i> a branch</b>—rather, in apposition with "the vine tree." Omit "<i>or than.</i>" What superiority has the vine <i>if it be but a branch among the trees of the forest,</i> that is, if, as having no fruit, it lies cut down among other woods of trees?
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<p id="Eze15_4"><b>4. cast into...fire</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Jhn',15,6);">Jhn 15:6</a>).
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<br><br><b>both the ends</b>—the north kingdom having been already overturned by Assyria under Tiglath-pileser; the south being pressed on by Egypt (<a onclick="return mV('2Ki',23,'29-35');">2Ki 23:29-35</a>).
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<br><br><b>midst of it is burned</b>—rather, "is on flame"; namely, Jerusalem, which had now caught the flame by the attack of Nebuchadnezzar.
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<br><br><b>Is it meet for any work</b>—"it," that is, the scorched part still remaining.
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<p id="Eze15_5"><b>5.</b> If useless before, much more so when almost wholly burnt.
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<p id="Eze15_6"><b>6.</b> So will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem, as being utterly unprofitable (<a onclick="return mV('Mat',21,'33-41');">Mat 21:33-41</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Mat',25,30);">25:30</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Mar',11,'12-14');">Mar 11:12-14</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Luk',13,'6-9');">Luk 13:6-9</a>) in answering God's design that they should be witnesses for Jehovah before the heathen (<a onclick="return mV('Mat',3,10);">Mat 3:10</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Mat',3,10);">5:13</a>).
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<p id="Eze15_7"><b>7. And I will set my face against them</b>— (See on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Lev/Lev017.html#Le17_10">Lev 17:10</a>).
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<br><br><b>from one fire...another</b>—(Compare <a onclick="return mV('Isa',24,18);">Isa 24:18</a>). "Fire" means here every kind of calamity (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',66,12);">Psa 66:12</a>). The Jewish fugitives shall escape from the ruin of Jerusalem, only to fall into some other calamity.
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<p id="Eze15_8"><b>8. trespass</b>—rather, "they have perversely fallen into perverse rebellion." The Jews were not merely <i>sinners</i> as the other nations, but <i>revolters</i> and <i>apostates.</i> It is one thing to neglect what we know not, but quite another thing to despise what we profess to worship [JEROME], as the Jews did towards God and the law.
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