Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 12:22
COM commentary-section · status:draft · license:PD
22. proverb —The infidel scoff, that the threatened judgment was so long in coming, it would not come at all, had by frequent repetition come to be a "proverb" with them. This skeptical habit contemporary prophets testify to ( Jeremiah 17:15 ; Jeremiah 20:7 ; Zephaniah 1:12 ). Ezekiel, at the Chebar, thus sympathizes with Jeremiah and strengthens his testimony at Jerusalem. The tendency to the same scoff showed itself in earlier times, but had not then developed into a settled "proverb" ( Isaiah 5:19 ; Amos 5:18 ). It shall again be the characteristic of the last times, when "faith" shall be regarded as an antiquated thing ( Amos 5:18- : ), seeing that it remains stationary, whereas worldly arts and sciences progress, and when the "continuance of all things from creation" will be the argument against the possibility of their being suddenly brought to a standstill by the coming of the Lord ( Isaiah 66:5 ; 2 Peter 3:3 ; 2 Peter 3:4 ). The very long-suffering of God, which ought to lead men to repentance, is made an argument against His word ( Ecclesiastes 8:11 ; Amos 6:3 ). days . . . prolonged . . . vision faileth —their twofold argument: (1) The predictions shall not come to pass till long after our time. (2) They shall fail and prove vain shadows. God answers both in Ezekiel 12:23 ; Ezekiel 12:25 . return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-23" class="com-number"
Pericope (part_of)
- part_of
pericope/per-ezk-12-005
절 (explains)
Source
source-manifest/jfb— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (PD)- evidence_grade: T_theological