Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 11:3

3 Which say, it is not near, let us build houses: This City is the Caldron, and we be the flesh.

What Counsel was by these men given appears by their words.

Either the threatned danger and ruine by the Chaldeans. Or, else build, but not in the Suburbs not near, but in the City that your houses may not shelter the Enemy.

This is an impious scoffe, yet mixt with some fear, of the Prophets, Ier. 1.13. and Ezekiel 24.6. They deride the Prophets, yet secretly dread the thing, Ierusalem is the pot, we the flesh that are to be boiled therein, but this will take up sometime however, we were better be so destroyed then to fall by the hands of the Chaldeans, who perhap may roast what is not boiled here.

Marginal references: 2 Pet. 3.4.