Ezequiel 18:18

18 Sin embargo, el padre morirá por todos sus pecados: por haber sido cruel, por robar a la gente y hacer lo que es indudablemente incorrecto en medio de su pueblo.

Ezequiel 18:18 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 18:18

[As for] his father
It shall be otherwise with him: because he cruelly oppressed;
or, "oppressed an oppression"; or, "with an oppression" ^F9; oppressed the poor, and had no mercy on them, but used them in the most rigorous manner: spoiled his brother by violence;
took away the spoil of his brother; spoiled him of his substance; did injury to his person and property, and all the mischief that lay in his power: and did [that] which [is] not good among his people;
neighbours, citizens, and countrymen; did nothing which was good, as he ought to have done; but everything that was bad, which he should not have done: lo, even he shall die in his iniquity:
and for it; it shall not be forgiven him; he shall be punished for it with death, with the death of affliction; and with corporeal death, as a punishment for sin; and with eternal death, dying in his sins, and in a state of impenitence. These instances, put every way, most clearly show the equity of God; the justness of his proceedings in providence; and how inapplicable the proverb in ( Ezekiel 18:2 ) was to them; and that such that sin, and continue therein, shall die for their own iniquities, and not for the sins of others.

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FOOTNOTES:

F9 (qve qve) "oppressit oppressionem", Pagninus, Montanus; "oppressit oppressione", Vatablus, Junius & Tremellius.

Ezequiel 18:18 In-Context

16 No explota a los pobres, más bien, es justo con los deudores y no les roba. Da de comer a los hambrientos y da ropa a los necesitados.

17 Ayuda a los pobres,
presta dinero sin cobrar interés y obedece todos mis decretos y ordenanzas. Esa persona no morirá por los pecados de su padre; ciertamente vivirá.

18 Sin embargo, el padre morirá por todos sus pecados: por haber sido cruel, por robar a la gente y hacer lo que es indudablemente incorrecto en medio de su pueblo.

19 »“¿Cómo? —se preguntan ustedes—. ¿No pagará el hijo por los pecados del padre?”. ¡No! Porque si el hijo hace lo que es justo y correcto y obedece mis decretos, ese hijo ciertamente vivirá.

20 La persona que peque es la que morirá. El hijo no será castigado por los pecados del padre ni el padre será castigado por los pecados del hijo. Los justos serán recompensados por su propia conducta recta y las personas perversas serán castigadas por su propia perversidad.