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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ezekiel 18:17 - 18:17
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taken off his hand from the poor - that is, abstained from oppressing the poor, when he had the opportunity of doing so with impunity. The different sense of the phrase in Eze 16:49, in reference to relieving the poor, seems to have suggested the reading followed by Fairbairn, but not sanctioned by the Hebrew, “hath not turned his hand from,” etc. But Eze 20:22 uses the phrase in a somewhat similar sense to English Version here, abstained from hurting.