Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 33:24

24 Son of man, they that inhabit those wastes of the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land, but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance .

Who were left behind, having either hid themselves but now come out of their holes, or returned from neighbour Countreys, whither they fled or permitted by the Conqueror to stay and plant Vineyards.

Places once very fruitful and abounding with people, but now by the spoil of the Souldiers, emptied of inhabitants, and made as a desolate Wilderness.

Our Father had hereditary right to all this land, when but one, and he multiplyed to a great Company, and so they possessed the Land, we Children of Abraham, though diminisht, are many, and the Divine goodness will surely appear then, and continue to us both right, and possession, and we▪ shall fill the Land, and recover our former state and priviledges

'Twas given by promise to us the Seed, as well as to our Progenitour, nay more 'tis given us in possession, we dwell in it, when Abraham had not one foot of it in his possession.

The perpetual inheritance is ours. Thus with vain fallacious arguments they cheat one another.

Thus think and speak, thus with vain reasonings they deceive themselves.