Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 12:22

22 Son of man, what is that proverb that ye have in the land of Israel, saying, the dayes are prolonged, and every vision faileth?

After the manner of man God speaks with man, what is, Or, it is a comely transition to a new subject of discourse.

That short saying taken up as undoubted truth, and in a very common manner used by all.

He seems to include the Prophet as being one of the body of the people though he used it not, nay shewed the falshood and impiety of it

In, so the Prophet and those with him are reckoned as if they were in the Land of Israel, for that is their Countrey. Or, rather, concerning, as the Heb. ([non-Latin text not transcribed] here used).

Of severe punishments of wrath and vengeance.

Are to come a great while hence, let them fear who are like to feel them, these Prophesies cannot be imagined to look to our times; thus Atheists, and contemners of the Prophets, hardned one another into sin and security.

Threatning vision which Ieremiah at Ierusalem, and Ezekiel here in Chaldea do dream of and would [illegible: 1 word] us [illegible: 1 word].

Comes to nothing, it is perisht or dead in the nest.

Marginal references: chap. 11.3. Amos 6.3.