Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 3:20
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20. righteous . . . turn from . . . righteousness —not one "righteous" as to the root and spirit of regeneration ( Psalms 89:33 ; Psalms 138:8 ; Isaiah 26:12 ; Isaiah 27:3 ; John 10:28 ; Philippians 1:6 ), but as to its outward appearance and performances. So the "righteous" ( Proverbs 18:17 ; Matthew 9:13 ). As in Ezekiel 3:19 the minister is required to lead the wicked to good, so in Ezekiel 3:19- : he is to confirm the well-disposed in their duty. commit iniquity —that is, give himself up wholly to it ( 1 John 3:8 ; 1 John 3:9 ), for even the best often fall, but not wilfully and habitually. I lay a stumbling-block —not that God tempts to sin ( James 1:13 ; James 1:14 ), but God gives men over to judicial blindness, and to their own corruptions ( Psalms 9:16 ; Psalms 9:17 ; Psalms 94:23 ) when they "like not to retain God in their knowledge" ( Romans 1:24 ; Romans 1:26 ); just as, on the contrary, God makes "the way of the righteous plain" ( Proverbs 4:11 ; Proverbs 4:12 ; Proverbs 15:19 ), so that they do "not stumble." CALVIN refers "stumbling-block" not to the guilt, but to its punishment; "I bring ruin on him." The former is best. Ahab, after a kind of righteousness ( Proverbs 15:19- : ), relapsed and consulted lying spirits in false prophets; so God permitted one of these to be his "stumbling-block," both to sin and its corresponding punishment ( Proverbs 15:19- : ). his blood will I require — ( Hebrews 13:17 ). return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-22" class="com-number"
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