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upon EZEKIEL. 53
Ver. 19. They fljall cafi their Silver into the Chapter
Streets, and their Gold (hall be removed."] or, Shall VII.
le accounted an unclean Thing ; fo the Margin l^VNJ
renders the Word Leniddah, in the following Verfe :
it fhall be valued no more than Dung or Filthinefs,
as being made a Prey to the Conquerors.
Ibid. They fhall not fatisfy their Souls, nor fill
their 'Bowels.'] Their Wealth will not procure
them the NecefTaries of Life under the Streights
of Famine, or Miferies of Bondage.
Ibid. Becauje it is the /tumbling 'Block of their
Ver. 19.
Compare
Iniquity.] They laid out their Silver and Gold in
making Ornaments for their Idols : Compare
Chapter xiv. 2. xvi. 17. xliv. 12.
Ver. 20 oAs for the 'Beauty of his Ornament, he Ver. 2©.
fet it in Majefty, &c] The Expreffions may moft
probably be underftood of the Glory and Magnificence
of the Temple, called elfewhere the
Beauty of Holinefs :
Verfe 22. This ve-
ry Place they have defiled with Idolatry. See
Chapter v. 1 1 therefore I have given it into the
Hands of the Gentiles to profane and pollute it.
For to that Senfe the Marginal reading rightly
tranflates the following Words. The PreterperfecT:
Tenfe is often ufed by the Prophets for the Future
who to denote the Certainty of the Event, fpeak
of what is to come, as if it were already done. See
the Note upon Ifa. xxi. 9. The fame Senfe is ex-
prefTed in the following Verfe, 1 will give it into
the Hands of Strangers, &c.
Ver. 21. To the Wicked of the Earth.] See Ver. 2 r.
Ver. 24.
Ver. 22.. My Face alfo will I turnfrom them, &o] Ver. 22,
I will not hear them when they cry to me in their
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