Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 18:30
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30-32. As God is to judge them "according to their ways" ( :- ), their only hope is to "repent"; and this is a sure hope, for God takes no delight in judging them in wrath, but graciously desires their salvation on repentance. I will judge you —Though ye cavil, it is a sufficient answer that I, your Judge, declare it so, and will judge you according to My will; and then your cavils must end. Repent — inward conversion ( Revelation 2:5 ). In the Hebrew there is a play of like sounds, " Turn ye and return. " turn yourselves, c.—the outward fruits of repentance. Not as the Margin, "turn others " for the parallel clause ( Revelation 2:5- : ) is, "cast away from you all your transgressions." Perhaps, however, the omission of the object after the verb in the Hebrew implies that both are included: Turn alike yourselves and all whom you can influence. from all . . . transgressions —not as if believers are perfect; but they sincerely aim at perfection, so as to be habitually and wilfully on terms with no sin ( Revelation 2:5- : ): your ruin —literally, "your snare," entangling you in ruin. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-31" class="com-number"
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