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An Excuse to Ignore Truth
Commentators agree that the people's complaint about Ezekiel speaking in "parables" was an excuse to ignore his message. Matthew Henry states it is common for those who refuse to be influenced by God's word to blame the word itself. The issue wasn't a lack of clarity, but a willful refusal to understand and obey a convicting truth.
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Ezekiel
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Albert Barnes
On Ezekiel 20:45–49
18th Century
Theologian
This paragraph is, in the Hebrew text, Septuagint, and Vulgate, the beginning of Ezekiel 21:0, to which it belongs, as it contains a prophecy deliv…
Charles Ellicott
On Ezekiel 20:49
19th Century
Bishop
Does he not speak parables? —Or enigmas—things that we cannot understand. This the prophet did intentionally, as he had done in ot…
John Gill
On Ezekiel 20:49
17th Century
Pastor
Then said I, ah Lord God ! &c.] The Septuagint version is, "by no means, Lord, Lord"; that is, let me not be sent on such…
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Matthew Henry
On Ezekiel 20:45–49
17th Century
Minister
Judah and Jerusalem had been full of people, like a forest of trees, but empty of fruit. God's word prophesies against those who do not produce the…