Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 13:10
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10. Because, even because —The repetition heightens the emphasis. Peace — safety to the nation. Ezekiel confirms Jeremiah 6:14 ; Jeremiah 8:11 . one —literally, "this one"; said contemptuously, as in Jeremiah 8:11- : . a wall —rather, "a loose wall." Ezekiel had said that the false prophets did not "go up into the gaps, or make up the breaches" ( Jeremiah 8:11- : ), as good architects do; now he adds that they make a bustling show of anxiety about repairing the wall; but it is without right mortar, and therefore of no use. one . . . others —besides individual effort, they jointly co-operated to delude the people. daubed . . . with untempered mortar —as sand without lime, mud without straw [GROTIUS]. FAIRBAIRN translates, "plaster it with whitewash." But besides the hypocrisy of merely outwardly "daubing" to make the wall look fair ( Matthew 23:27 ; Matthew 23:29 ; Acts 23:3 ), there is implied the unsoundness of the wall from the absence of true uniting cement; the "untempered cement" answering to the lie of the prophets, who say, in support of their prophecies, "Thus saith the Lord, when the Lord hath not spoken" ( Acts 23:3- : ). return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-11" class="com-number"
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