does not oppress anyone, exacts no pledge, commits no robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment,
A godly father's prayers and pains cannot compel his son's obedience. The child may have every advantage, instruction, discipline, example, yet still shake off all good and run to robbery and idolatry, becoming the grief of his family and the curse of his generation. Parentage changes nothing in God's reckoning.
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Commenting on Ezekiel 18:10-20
This son does what his father would not: he withdraws his hand from the poor when he could crush them, refuses usury, executes God's judgments, and walks in His statutes. He shall live eternally, not because his father was wicked, but because he himself has chosen righteousness and acted from gracious principles toward God and man.
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The son sees his father's transgressions clearly and deliberately does not follow them. He keeps all God's statutes while his father dies for his own sin. The soul that sins, it dies; and no son bears his father's burden, nor father his son's. Each stands or falls by his own righteousness or wickedness alone.
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Commenting on Ezekiel 18:14-20