Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 16:36
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Ezekiel16:36
36 Thus saith the Lord GOD; because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the Idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children which thou didst give unto them.
This august title is a preface to give weight to the sentence, and to affect her heart with fear.
It might be rendred Money, with which she hired, and bribed her Lovers which she spent upon Baal, as Hos. 2.8. Her Sorcery, with which she bewitch't and enchanted them: Her Poyson infused into them she converst with: The Impudence of her carriage, as a Whore with a fore-head of brass. Ier. 3.3.
It includes her eagerness, constancy, and abounding in her wickedness, and most modestly upbraids her with her most immodest lasciviousness, and discovery of it.
Sometime it is figuratively taken, so it may be here, though I rather think she is charged with such prostitution, as the discovering the parts Nature hath conceal'd, and modesty shou'd keep secret.
In thy playing the Harlot thou hast shamelessly incited thy Lovers by discovery of thy secret parts.
As before was observed, she doted on all the Idols of her Neighbours and Acquaintance, which become her Abominations by her loving them, when she shou'd have abhorr'd them. a vid. ver. 20, 21. Adultery, Idolatry, Murther of her Children, is the sum of this charge drawn up against her.
Marginal references: money, witchcraft, poyson.; Heb. in.
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