Yǐsījiēshū 20:7

7 Wǒ duì tāmen shuō , nǐmen gèrén yào pāo qì yǎn suǒ xǐaì nà kĕ zēng zhī wù , bùkĕ yīn Āijí de ǒuxiàng diànwū zìjǐ . wǒ shì Yēhéhuá nǐmen de shén .

Yǐsījiēshū 20:7 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 20:7

Then I said unto them
Having promised and swore to do such great and good things for them; which must lay them under an obligation to regard what he should command them: promises and blessings of goodness are great incentives to duty, and lay under great obligation to it: cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes;
which should be so, meaning idols; but which his eyes were taken with, and were lifted up unto, as his gods; though they ought to have been rejected with the utmost abhorrence, as abominable: and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt;
their "dunghill gods", as the word ^F6 signifies; which to worship, as it was an abomination to God, was defiling to themselves; yet these they were fond of, and prone to worship them; their eyes and their hearts were after them; and they needed such cautions and instructions as these, backed with the following strong reason against such idolatry: I [am] the Lord your God;
their Creator and Benefactor, their covenant God; the only Lord God, and whom only they ought to serve and worship; to whom they were under ten thousand obligations; and who was infinitely above all the idols of Egypt.

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FOOTNOTES:

F6 (ylwlgb) "stercoreis diis", Junius & Tremellius, Polanus; "stercoribus", Piscator, Cocceius.

Yǐsījiēshū 20:7 In-Context

5 Duì tāmen shuō , zhǔ Yēhéhuá rúcǐ shuō , dāng rì wǒ jiǎnxuǎn Yǐsèliè , xiàng Yǎgè jiā de hòuyì qǐshì , zaì Āijí dì jiāng zìjǐ xiàng tāmen xiǎnxiàn , shuō , wǒ shì Yēhéhuá nǐmen de shén .

6 Nà rì wǒ xiàng tāmen qǐshì , bì lǐng tāmen chū Āijí dì , dào wǒ wèi tāmen chákàn de liú nǎi yǔ mì zhī dì . nà dì zaì wàn guó zhōng shì yǒu róngyào de .

7 Wǒ duì tāmen shuō , nǐmen gèrén yào pāo qì yǎn suǒ xǐaì nà kĕ zēng zhī wù , bùkĕ yīn Āijí de ǒuxiàng diànwū zìjǐ . wǒ shì Yēhéhuá nǐmen de shén .

8 Tāmen què beìnì wǒ , bù kĕn tīng cóng wǒ , bú pāo qì tāmen yǎn suǒ xǐaì nà kĕ zēng zhī wù , bù lí qì Āijí de ǒuxiàng . wǒ jiù shuō , wǒ yào jiāng wǒde fèn nù qīng zaì tāmen shēnshang , zaì Āijí dì xiàng tāmen chéngjiù wǒ nù zhōng suǒ déng de .

9 Wǒ què wèi wǒ míng de yuángù méiyǒu zhèyàng xíng , miǎndé wǒ míng zaì tāmen suǒ zhù de liè guó rén yǎnqián beì xièdú . wǒ lǐng tāmen chū Āijí dì , zaì zhè liè guó rén de yǎnqián jiāng zìjǐ xiàng tāmen xiǎnxiàn .