Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal?
The Prophet here shows that those who used the vulgar taunt — that the children’s teeth were set on edge, because their fathers had eaten sour grapes — had broken away from all restraint; and nothing further remained to hinder them from uttering their blasphemies arrogantly against God: but their insolence and madness now increases when they say that God’s ways are not equal.
While we live, the trial continues, and God judges each person by the change wrought in himself, not by his father's sins or his children's course. A true convert must first consider his wretchedness, then turn from wickedness itself, then do what is just and right. The prodigal who sits down and reckons the cost of his rebellion will rise and return to his Father.
AI summary
Commenting on Ezekiel 18:21-29
When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness,.... This is repeated for the further confirmation of it, and to raise their attention to it; to make it more plain and manifest to them, and to fix it upon their minds: and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them: or, "he shall die for them" (m); both for his turning away from his righteousness, and for...