A commentary upon the prophet Ezekiel . * * #?* 4- * *;*• #???##??# ChapterXX. :. 1. Ver. 5. Ver. 4. ********* v****-*--*-***-**--**-*-**** CHAP. XX. The Argument. This Chapter contains a Rehearfal of the Rebellionsand Idolatries of the Jews from their going out©/Egypt to that very Day. The Trophet after-wards foretels their Converfion and Reftaura-tion. The laft Five Verfes contain a Trophecyagainft Jerufalem. Ver. 1. igfeagg^ggsal NT> it came to fafs in the fe-venth Tear, &c.] OfjehoiakirfsCaptivity : Compare Chap. viii. 1. All the Propheciesrecorded from the Eighth Chap-ter to this,


A commentary upon the prophet Ezekiel . * * #?* 4- * *;*• #???##??# ChapterXX. :. 1. Ver. 5. Ver. 4. ********* v****-*--*-***-**--**-*-**** CHAP. XX. The Argument. This Chapter contains a Rehearfal of the Rebellionsand Idolatries of the Jews from their going out©/Egypt to that very Day. The Trophet after-wards foretels their Converfion and Reftaura-tion. The laft Five Verfes contain a Trophecyagainft Jerufalem. Ver. 1. igfeagg^ggsal NT> it came to fafs in the fe-venth Tear, &c.] OfjehoiakirfsCaptivity : Compare Chap. viii. 1. All the Propheciesrecorded from the Eighth Chap-ter to this, probably belong to the fixth Year of thatCaptivity. Ibid. Certain of the Elders of Ifraelcame to en-quire of the Lord, 8cc] See the Note on Chap,viii. 1. Ver. $. / will not he enquired of by you.] You{hall not receive fuch an Anfwer as you ex peel,but fuch as your Hypocrify deferves. See Ver. Chap. xiv. j, 4. Ver. 4. Wilt thou judge them ?~\ Wilt thou fleadfor them as our Margin reads, or defend their Caufe ?. upon EZEKIEL. 141 Caufe? But the Words may perhaps be more fig- Chapternificantly tranflated, Wilt thou not judge them ? e. Wilt thou not reprove, or condemn them ? i/*WJNoldiw obferves in his Concordance, p. 2}}. thatHe the Particle of Interrogation, which anfwersthe Latin Particle &4n? is often equivalent to theNegative oAmmi, and is to be tranflated, h it not ?See Ver. 30. of this Chapter, and Chap, In which Senfe it is underftood by our Tran-slators, 2 Sam. xxiii. 17. and fo it fhould be ren-dred 1 Sam. ii. 27. Did I not -plainly appear to theHoufeofthy Father, &c. Ibid. Son of Man.,] See Chap. ii. 1. Ver. 5. In the Day when I lifted up my HandVew 5,to the Seed of the Houfe ofJacob.~\ When I entredinto a iblemn Covenant with them, purfuant to theOath which I had fvvorn to their Fathers : SeeExod. vi. 8. Lifting up the Hand was a Ceremonyufed in taking an. Oath., See Gen. xiv. andthereupon applied to* God himfelf, 1)eut. xxxii.


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