Ezekiel 4

XXIII. Finally, by way of supreme contempt they are called by the Hebrew term signifying "filth, dung, wallowing-places:": Ezekiel 23:3, "He committed fornication with them to defile himself," with dunghill-gods. Leviticus 26:30; Deuteronomy 16; the term signifies "dung;": Job 2…

Now the Lord takes the strength of bread and of water away two ways: first, when he takes them from us altogether; or else when he takes away their strength to nourish us. For if God inspires not a secret virtue into them, they can profit us nothing at all, though we should have…

Woe be to you Chorazin, woe be to you Bethsaida, for if the great works that have been done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon they would long before this day have repented in sackcloth and ashes (Matthew 11:21). Indeed he affirms (Ezekiel 4:6) if he had sent Ezekiel to a st…

Hence it was, that he spared the old world 120 years (1 Peter 3:19). He spared the Israelites, after their idolatry, 390 years (Ezekiel 4:5). Besides this, we have example of the lowliness and long-suffering of Christ, who says (Matthew 11:29), Learne of me, for I am humble and…

(It is evident that the Holy Spirit in those expressions in Psalm 19:4-6, has respect to something else besides the natural sun; and that an eye is had to the Sun of Righteousness, that by his light converts the soul, makes wise the simple, enlightens the eyes, and rejoices the…