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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ezekiel 20:31 - 20:31
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through the fire - As “the fire” is omitted in Eze 20:26, Fairbairn represents the generation here referred to (namely, that of Ezekiel’s day) as attaining the climax of guilt (see on Eze 20:26), in making their children pass through the fire, which that former generation did not. The reason, however, for the omission of “the fire” in Eze 20:26 is, perhaps, that there it is implied the children only “passed through the fire” for purification, whereas here they are actually burnt to death before the idol; and therefore “the fire” is specified in the latter, not in the former case (compare 2Ki 3:27).