Ezekiel 15
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5. If useless before, much more so when almost wholly burnt.
6. So will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem, as being utterly unprofitable ( Matthew 21:33-41 , 25:30 , mark 1:1 11:12-14 , Luke 13:6-9 ) in answering God's design that they should be witnesses for Jehovah before the heathen ( Matthew 3:10 , 5:13 ).
7. And I will set my face against
from one fire . . . another--(Compare Isaiah 24:18 ). "Fire" means here every kind of calamity ( Psalms 66:12 ). The Jewish fugitives shall escape from the ruin of Jerusalem, only to fall into some other calamity.
8. trespass--rather, "they have perversely fallen into perverse rebellion." The Jews were not merely sinners as the other nations, but revolters and apostates. It is one thing to neglect what we know not, but quite another thing to despise what we profess to worship [JEROME], as the Jews did towards God and the law.