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Now is the end on you, and I will send my anger on you, and will judge you according to your ways; and I will bring on you all your abominations.
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The End is Truly the End
Commentators like John Calvin emphasize the repeated phrase "the end" to show this judgment is final and absolute. The people of Israel had grown complacent, believing God's past leniency would continue. This declaration was meant to shock them into realizing that this was not just another warning, but the definitive, inescapable conclusion.
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Ezekiel
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18th Century
Presbyterian
A kind of refrain, repeated in Ezekiel 7:8-9, as the close of another stanza.
16th Century
Protestant
He puts the word end a third time, and repeats it even a fourth and a fifth time. From this we gather that those miserable people, althoug…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Now [is] the end [come] upon you This is repeated for the confirmation of it, and for the sake of application of it …
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The abruptness of this prophecy, and the many repetitions, show that the prophet was deeply affected by the prospect of these calamities. Such will…
