Bullinger's Companion bible Notes". 'Live in thy blood,' i:e., Live, but live a life exposed to many deaths, as was the case in the beginnings of Israel's national existence, in order to magnify the grace of God (Calvin). Men suppose that there is a congruity between their souls and the pleasures and gains of the present world, whereas there is an utter incongruity. "George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary". No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for Ezekiel 16:6. "Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible". This happens more than you'd like to believe. The city remained as an unwanted child until, at the Lord"s direction, David captured it from the Jebusites and made it the capital of his kingdom ( 2 Samuel 5:6-10). when thou . Ezekiel 16 is an extended metaphor containing an oracle of judgement and concludes with a promise of a future everlasting covenant (v. 59-63), which is the new covenant that Jesus inaugurated in his death and resurrection. 4 And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all. [2 Peter 1:4]. BibliographyTorrey, R. A. God here speaks after the manner of men. The former view is preferable. I have already explained the time to which the Prophet alludes, when the seed of Abraham began to be tyrannically oppressed by the Egyptians. This was historically true. BibliographyJamieson, Robert, D.D. Ezekiel 16:6 Food for Thought An all-creatures.org Guide to Kingdom Living. There's legitimately no excuse for this myth but superstition's sake, even if there really was a case where it miraculously saved a life. Ah yes, like you could move a mountain if you truly believed you could, or walk on water. A haha, supernatural side of Christianity... it kinda reminds of the YA supernatural fiction am wwriting, it's centered around Christianity. Sure, maybe your faith helped your nose bleed to stop. No eye pitied you, to do any of these things for you, to have compassion on you; but you were thrown out into the open field, when you yourself were loathed on the day you were born. Well, as Matthew 20:17 states "And He said to them, "Because of the littleness of your faith; for truly I say to you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you." In thy blood - may be connected either with “I said” or with “Live.” In the latter case, the state of blood and defilement is made the very cause of life, because it called forth the pity of Him who gave life. And when I passed by thee — While as yet no body took so much care of thee as to wash thee from thy native filthiness, I took pity on thee; as a traveller that passes by and sees an infant lie exposed; and I provided all things necessary for thy support. Now the reason is asked why God did not openly and directly take up his people, and treat them as kindly as he did during their youth? See note on s Kings Ezekiel 9:15-17. If someone was bleeding out and had faith God would save him/her, and recited this and lived, that's a miracle, not a spell. Human souls are dead to this bliss. surely it will instantly expire: and I have already said that death is prepared for infants, unless their navel-string be cut. BibliographyClarke, Adam. See Calmet. On what do you base that ? But it is evident from the context, that God here expresses the secret virtue by which the people was preserved contrary to the common feelings. The whole is an emblem of the state and condition the elect of God are in, when they are quickened by him; who are by their first birth unclean; under the pollution, power, and guilt of sin; wallowing and weltering in it; deserving of the wrath of God, and liable to punishment for it; trodden under foot, quite neglected and despised in all appearance; and are both hopeless and helpless: when the Lord "passes" by them, not by chance, but on purpose, knowing where they are; and this he often does by the ministry of the word, under which they are providentially cast; and where he "sees" them, and looks upon then, not merely with his eye of omniscience, much less with an eye of scorn, contempt, and abhorrence; but with an eye of pity and compassion, and even of complacency and delight in their persons, though not in their sins: and when he speaks life into them, a principle of spiritual life; or quickens them by his word, so that they live a life of faith and holiness, which issues in everlasting life: this flows from divine love, and is the effect of divine power; it is of pure rich grace, and not of man's merit; as his case, being in his blood, and dead in sins, show; see Ephesians 2:4. Many people were healed by Jesus by their faith. Other than that, I believe that the supernatural gifts of the spirit closed with the canon of Scripture and that if you want a sign from God you'll have to investigate the historical reliability of the New Testament documents in which all the signs were performed. ', I said. It lived, then, in bloods, that is, in the tomb, like a carcass remaining in its own putridness, and its life in the meantime lying hid: so it happened to the sons of Abraham. Copyright StatementThese files are a derivative of an electronic edition prepared from text scanned by Woodside Bible Fellowship.This expanded edition of the Jameison-Faussett-Brown Commentary is in the public domain and may be freely used and distributed. God therefore here shows how compassionate he was towards the people, because he was not horrified by that disgraceful foulness, when he saw the infant so immersed in its own gore without any shape. All rights reserved. Live; it sounds like a command, but it is such a command as sends forth a power accompanying it to effect what is commanded; he gave that life; he spake, and it was done. Polluted in thine own blood; most exact emblem of man’s sinful and miserable state, his filthiness and death arising from himself, as the death and filthiness of one wallowing in his own blood. 1909-1922. Polluted in thine own blood— Wallowing in thy blood. Yahweh found her in her dreadful state, kicking and struggling in her own blood and had pity on her. as they then sighed and cried because of their bondage, the Lord looked upon them with an eye of pity and compassion, and delivered them, Exodus 1:14; I said unto thee, when thou wast in thy blood, live: yea, I said unto thee, when thou wast in thy blood, live; the Lord preserved them and saved them alive, when they were near to ruin, and delivered them by the hands of Moses, which was as life from the dead; and this he did of his own sovereign good will and pleasure, and not for any worth or merit, in them, any goodness or righteousness of theirs; for this he did when they were in their blood, pollution, and guilt; and which, that it might be observed, is repeated. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/pmc/ezekiel-16.html. The Word is living so speaking it is powerful. Version. Information based on Strong's Exhaustive Concordance[1]. "E.W. Irons, Thursday Penny Pulpit, vol. (2) The souls of men are not fulfilling the end of their being.
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