withholds his hand from iniquity, takes no interest or profit, obeys my rules, and walks in my statutes; he shall not die for his father’s iniquity; he shall surely live.
Now at last he concludes: he shall not die through his father’s iniquity; he shall surely live. He does not repeat that this is just, yet we must understand it so; but he stops at the immediate effect, since God’s blessing awaits all the just, as Isaiah says surely there is a reward to the just, (Isaiah 3:10;) and the Prophet exclaims as if it...
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.
AI summary
Commenting on Ezekiel 18:10-20
As for his father,.... It shall be otherwise with him: because he cruelly oppressed; or, "oppressed an oppression"; or, "with an oppression" (i); oppressed the poor, and had no mercy on them, but used them in the most rigorous manner: spoiled his brother by violence; took away the spoil of his brother; spoiled him of his substance; did injury to his person and property, and...