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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ezekiel 13:10 - 13:10
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Because, even because - The repetition heightens the emphasis.
Peace - safety to the nation. Ezekiel confirms Jer 6:14; Jer 8:11.
one - literally, “this one”; said contemptuously, as in 2Ch 28:22.
a wall - rather, “a loose wall.” Ezekiel had said that the false prophets did not “go up into the gaps, or make up the breaches” (Eze 13:5), as good architects do; now he adds that they make a bustling show of anxiety about repairing the wall; but it is without right mortar, and therefore of no use.
one ... others - besides individual effort, they jointly co-operated to delude the people.
daubed ... with untempered mortar - as sand without lime, mud without straw [Grotius]. Fairbairn translates, “plaster it with whitewash.” But besides the hypocrisy of merely outwardly “daubing” to make the wall look fair (Mat 23:27, Mat 23:29; Act 23:3), there is implied the unsoundness of the wall from the absence of true uniting cement; the “untempered cement” answering to the lie of the prophets, who say, in support of their prophecies, “Thus saith the Lord, when the Lord hath not spoken” (Eze 22:28).