Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 18:13

13 Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations, he shall surely die, his blood shall be upon him.

See ver. 8. let. x, and y.

See ver. 8. let. z, and a.

do you think his Fathers Righteousness shall preserve him from the punishment his own unrighteousness deserveth, my Law threatneth, and my Justice inflicteth? Shall he not with other sinners be spoiled, besieged, dy by the Sword or Famine, or languish in a long Captivity, and there dye?

A decisive answer to the former question; such a one shall not prosper, nor long escape the stroaks of my Justice, and the answer is parallel with that, chap. 17.10.

Is personally involved in the sins which are worthy of Death, and which are so expresly threatned by Law and Prophets.

Not only win'kt at, or not hindred, but hath been a forward, voluntary, active doer of them.

That are here, and elsewhere in this Prophet, and in others, charged on the Iews as the cause of their calamities at this day.

Great enormities, sins to be abominated and hated, not practiced and justifyed by shameless sinners▪

Most certainly dy, or if you suppose such an one finally impenitent, he shall surely dye under Temporal Judgments; and so by first Death fall under the second Death also: Dying, he shall dye, a Hebrew phrase, and very full.

Heb. 'Tis plural, bloods; both the blood of the Innocent which he murthered, and his own blood which thereby he forfeited, the blood of his own Soul and Life, that is the whole blame of his misery in Time and Eternity, shall ly upon himself, who brought all those sorrows on himself by his own wickednesses.

Marginal references: Heb. bloods.