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Set it, the hieroglyphic pot, empty; the water, flesh, bones, all consumed, i.e. the citizens all wasted with sword, famine, or pestilence, the city left as an empty, overboiled pot.
Upon the coals thereof; signifying the burning of the city itself, after the emptying of its inhabitants.
That the brass of it; perhaps he alludes to the impudence of their sins, in that the city is likened to a pot of brass.
May be hot; God’s judgments would increase upon them, as heat doth in a pot set on coals.
And may burn; which is the highest degree; so should these miseries increase.
That the filthiness, type of the sinfulness, the unreformed sinfulness of the city, may be molten in it; that their wickedness may be taken away with their persons and city: they should have been purged by gentler meltings which God used; since they were not, nor would be purified, now they shall be melted to the utter destruction of them.
The scum: see Eze_24:6.