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The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
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God's Patience is Not Permission
Commentators explain that this verse introduces God's response to a dangerous attitude. The Israelites mistook God's patience, which was meant to lead them to repentance, as a sign that His warnings were empty. Scholars like John Calvin note this turns God's mercy into a reason for greater sin and hardens the heart against Him.
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Ezekiel
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18th Century
Presbyterian
As in Ezekiel 7, the nearness of the judgment is foretold.
Ezekiel 12:22.
The land of Israel generally refers to t…
19th Century
Anglican
These verses contain two distinct messages from the Lord (Ezekiel 12:21–28), both designed to meet the objection that warning prophecie…
16th Century
Protestant
Here God inveighs against the gross ridicule that prevailed everywhere among the Jews. For when the Prophets had been threatening them for so long,…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying ] After he had been a sign unto the people, in the two instances above ment…
From that forbearance of God, which should have led them to repent, the Jews hardened themselves in sin. It will not serve as an excuse for speakin…
