Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 13:20

20 Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD, behold, I am against your pillows wherewith ye there hunt the souls, to make them fly, and I will tear them from your arms, and will let the souls go, even the souls that ye hunt to make them fly.

The same phrase ver. 8.

The Rite, and its signification too.

Either at Ierusalem, or where ever you give out answers,

In this sense the word is no where else used, and thus used here renders the interpretation obscure, elsewhere 'tis to bud as Num. 17.8. and Ezek. 7.10. to blossom, Isa. 27.6. to spring up as a Flower or Vine, Psal. 92.7. and Cant. 6.11. to grow, as Hos. 14.8. Thus the sense is obvious, by these lying Ceremonies thus applied you promise a flourishing, growing, state to all enquirers, and this is the net with which you hunt souls, 'tis possible these Prophetesses might bring their deceived ones into pleasant Gardens, and (if well paid for it) entertain with all the pleasures of Flowers and Fruits, and might not these Prophetesses be the Priests of Flora, and seduce young, fair, wanton ones to the Idolatry and brutish pleasures of the Floralia?

With some violence, and suddenness that may express an indignation, as 2 Kings 5.7. when the King of Israel rent his clothes at the hearing the letter of Benhadad King of Syria, so in wrath will God suddenly tear your enchanting and divining habits.

Either from the arms of such as put them on when they consulted with these seducers. Or, may be the seducers might ordinarily wear them to be known what they were.

You held the souls of those that heard you as Captives. Or, as bewitched with your enchantments and pleasures, but I will set them free, some I will enlighten to discover your frauds; others I will undeceive by sending them into Captivity.

Marginal references: Or, into gardens.