Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ezekiel 4:14

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ezekiel 4:14 - 4:14

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Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ezekiel 4:14 - 4:14

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4:2 - 4:2
4:3 - 4:3
4:4 - 4:4
4:5 - 4:5
4:6 - 4:6
4:7 - 4:7
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4:10 - 4:10
4:11 - 4:11
4:12 - 4:12
4:13 - 4:13
4:14 - 4:14
4:15 - 4:15
4:16 - 4:16
4:17 - 4:17

Ezekiel, as a priest, had been accustomed to the strictest abstinence from everything legally impure. Peter felt the same scruple at a similar command (Act 10:14; compare Isa 65:4). Positive precepts, being dependent on a particular command can be set aside at the will of the divine ruler; but moral precepts are everlasting in their obligation because God cannot be inconsistent with His unchanging moral nature.

abominable flesh - literally, “flesh that stank from putridity.” Flesh of animals three days killed was prohibited (Lev 7:17, Lev 7:18; Lev 19:6, Lev 19:7).