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The Point of No Return
Commentators explain that this verse illustrates the sobering reality of a "day of grace" that can end. After persistent and unrepentant sin, a point can be reached where the time for prayer is past and judgment is irreversible. As one scholar notes, this teaches the possibility of sinning beyond the term of grace.
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Ezekiel
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Charles Ellicott
On Ezekiel 8:18
19th Century
Bishop
Will I not hear them. —The time for prayer was past. They had rejected God. And when His wrath came upon them it was too late to t…
John Calvin
On Ezekiel 8:18
16th Century
Theologian
This seems to me a confirmation of the last clause. For he had said that they sent forth their boughs or cast them forth, but still to their destru…
John Gill
On Ezekiel 8:18
17th Century
Pastor
Therefore will I also deal in fury
Being provoked by such abominable idolatries, and such horrid insolence, and most…
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Matthew Henry
On Ezekiel 8:13–18
17th Century
Minister
The yearly lamenting for Tammuz was accompanied by infamous practices; and the sun worshippers described here are thought to have been priests. The…