Yǐsījiēshū 18:19

19 Nǐmen hái shuō , érzi wèihé bù dāndāng fùqin de zuìniè ne . érzi xíng zhèngzhí yǔ hélǐ de shì , jǐn shǒu zūnxíng wǒde yīqiè lǜ lì , tā bìdéng cún huó .

Yǐsījiēshū 18:19 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 18:19

Yet say ye, why?
&c.] Why do you say so? why do you go on to assert that which is not fact, or which is contrary to fact, contrary to what we feel and experience every day, to say that children are not punished for their parents' sins? these are the words of the murmuring, complaining, and blaspheming Jews, quarrelling with the prophet, and with the Lord himself: doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father?
have not we proof of it every day we live? are not our present case and circumstances a full evidence of it? or the words may be rendered, "why does not the son bear the iniquity of the father?" so the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, and Arabic versions; or, as the Targum,

``why is not the son punished for the sins of the father?''

and so they are an objection, which is foreseen might be made, and is here anticipated, to which an answer is returned; and so the Syriac version introduces it, "but if they said" then adds, "tell them", as follows: when,
or "because" the son hath done that which is lawful [and] right, and hath kept all
my statutes, and hath done them:
this is the reason why he shall not bear his father's sins, or be punished for them; intimating that they had not done these things that made the complaint, or put the, question; but had committed the same sins their fathers had, and so were punished, not for their fathers' sins, but their own: for otherwise the man that does what is just and right with God, and between man and man, he shall surely live; (See Gill on Ezekiel 18:17).

Yǐsījiēshū 18:19 In-Context

17 Suō shǒu bù haì pínqióng rén , wèicéng xiàng jiè qián de dìxiōng qǔ lì , yĕ wèicéng xiàng jiè liáng de dìxiōng duō yào . tā shùncóng wǒde diǎnzhāng , zūnxíng wǒde lǜ lì , jiù bú yīn fùqin de zuìniè sǐwáng , déng yào cún huó .

18 Zhìyú tā fùqin . yīnwei qī rén taì shén , qiǎngduó dìxiōng , zaì bĕn guó de mín zhōng xíng bú shàn , tā bì yīn zìjǐ de zuìniè sǐwáng .

19 Nǐmen hái shuō , érzi wèihé bù dāndāng fùqin de zuìniè ne . érzi xíng zhèngzhí yǔ hélǐ de shì , jǐn shǒu zūnxíng wǒde yīqiè lǜ lì , tā bìdéng cún huó .

20 Wéiyǒu fàn zuì de , tā bì sǐwáng . érzi bì bú dāndāng fùqin de zuìniè , fùqin yĕ b4 dāndāng érzi de zuìniè . yì rén de shàn guǒ bì guī zìjǐ , è rén de è bào yĕ bì guī zìjǐ .

21 È rén ruò huí tóu líkāi suǒ zuò de yīqiè zuìè , jǐn shǒu wǒ yīqiè de lǜ lì ,xíng zhèngzhí yǔ hélǐ de shì , tā bìdéng cún huó , bù zhì sǐwáng .