the Week of Proper 18 / Ordinary 23
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Yehezkiel 18:2
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"Ada apa dengan kamu, sehingga kamu mengucapkan kata sindiran ini di tanah Israel: Ayah-ayah makan buah mentah dan gigi anak-anaknya menjadi ngilu?
Apa sebabnya maka kamu pakai perbahasaan ini akan hal tanah Israel, katamu: Bahwa bapa-bapa sudah makan buah anggur yang belum masak, maka gigi anak-anaknya sudah jadi ngilu?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
mean: Ezekiel 17:12, Isaiah 3:15, Romans 9:20
the land: Ezekiel 6:2, Ezekiel 6:3, Ezekiel 7:2, Ezekiel 25:3, Ezekiel 36:1-6, Ezekiel 37:11, Ezekiel 37:19, Ezekiel 37:25
The fathers: Jeremiah 15:4, Jeremiah 31:29, Jeremiah 31:30, Lamentations 5:7, Matthew 23:36
Reciprocal: Leviticus 26:39 - and also Job 40:2 - he that reproveth Ezekiel 12:22 - what Ezekiel 16:44 - every Ezekiel 18:29 - General Hosea 7:13 - spoken Jonah 1:6 - What Acts 21:13 - What
Cross-References
And sayde: Lorde, yf I haue nowe founde fauour in thy sight, passe not away I praye thee from thy seruaunt.
And Abraham went apace into the tent vnto Sara, & sayde: Make redy at once three peckes of fine meale, kneade [it] and make cakes vpon the hearth.
And Abraham runnyng vnto his beastes, fet a calfe tender and good, and gaue it vnto a young man, and he hasted to make it redy at once.
Abraham and Sara were both olde, and well stryken in age: and it ceassed to be with Sara after the maner as it is with women.
And the men rysyng vp from thence, loked toward Sodome: and Abraham went with them to bryng them on the way.
And there came two angels to Sodome at euen, and Lot sate at the gate of Sodome: and Lot seing [them] rose vp to meete them, and he bowed hym selfe with his face towarde the grounde.
Abraham stoode vp and bowed hym selfe before the people of the lande, that is, the chyldren of Heth.
And Iacob was left hym selfe alone: and there wrasteled a man with hym, vnto the breakyng of the day.
When Ioseph came home, they brought the present into the house to hym, whiche was in their handes, and bowed them selues to the grounde before him.
They aunswered: Thy seruaunt our father is in good health, & is yet alyue. And they bowing them selues, made theyr obeysaunce.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel,.... This is spoken to the Jews in Babylon, who used the following proverb concerning the land of Israel; not the ten tribes, but the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin, concerning the desolation of the land, and the hardships the Jews laboured under, since the captivity of Jeconiah, and they became subject to the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar: this expostulation with them suggests that they had no just cause, or true reason, to make use of the proverb; that it was impious, impudent, and insolent in them, and daring and dangerous; and that they did not surely well consider what they said. The proverb follows:
saying, the fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge? that is, as the Targum explains it,
"the fathers have sinned, and the children are smitten,''
or punished, as the ten tribes for the sins of Jeroboam, and the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin for the sins of Manasseh; hereby wiping themselves clean; and as if they were innocent persons, and free from sin, and were only punished for their forefathers' sins, and so charging God with injustice and cruelty; whereas, though the Lord threatened to visit the iniquity of parents upon their children, and sometimes did so, to deter parents from sinning, lest they should entail a curse, and bring ruin upon their posterity; yet he never did this but when children followed their fathers' practices, and committed the same sins, or worse; so that this was no act of unrighteousness in God, but rather an instance of his patience and long suffering; see
Jeremiah 31:29.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Concerning the land of Israel - Rather, “in the land of Israel,” i. e., upon Israel’s soil, the last place where such a paganish saying should be expected. The saying was general among the people both in Palestine and in exile; and expressed the excuse wherewith they ascribed their miserable condition to anyone’s fault but their own - to a blind fate such as the pagan recognized, instead of the discriminating judgment of an All-holy God.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Ezekiel 18:2. The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge? — We have seen this proverb already, Jeremiah 31:29, &c., and have considered its general meaning. But the subject is here proposed in greater detail, with a variety of circumstances, to adapt it to all those cases to which it should apply. It refers simply to these questions: How far can the moral evil of the parent be extended to his offspring? And, Are the faults and evil propensities of the parents, not only transferred to the children, but punished in them? Do parents transfer their evil nature, and are their children punished for their offences?
