Online Resource Library
Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ezekiel 18:30 - 18:30
(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)
This Chapter Verse Commentaries:
As God is to judge them “according to their ways” (Pro 1:31), their only hope is to “repent”; and this is a sure hope, for God takes no delight in judging them in wrath, but graciously desires their salvation on repentance.
I will judge you - Though ye cavil, it is a sufficient answer that I, your Judge, declare it so, and will judge you according to My will; and then your cavils must end.
Repent - inward conversion (Rev 2:5). In the Hebrew there is a play of like sounds, “Turn ye and return.”
turn yourselves, etc. - the outward fruits of repentance. Not as the Margin, “turn others”; for the parallel clause (Eze 18:31) is, “cast away from you all your transgressions.” Perhaps, however, the omission of the object after the verb in the Hebrew implies that both are included: Turn alike yourselves and all whom you can influence.
from all ... transgressions - not as if believers are perfect; but they sincerely aim at perfection, so as to be habitually and willfully on terms with no sin (1Jo 3:6-9):
your ruin - literally, “your snare,” entangling you in ruin.