Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 36:20

20 And when they entred unto the heathen whither they went, these profaned my holy name, when they said to them, these are the people of the LORD, and are gone forth out of his land.

When they were come into Babylon, and entred into familiarity with the inhabitants, as neighbours.

Did profanely sin against those precepts of my law, which heathens did know, venerate, and observe better, then the Iews, or it may include the misery, their sins had brought them to, which misery reflected upon their God in the opinion of the Heathen.

Their Heathen Neighbours.

The miserable and profane Iew.

With taunt, and cutting reprimand: These, These Captive Slaves, that are most forlorn of men, will have it, that their God is the Lord, the mighty, and the good God, the true and faithful one, that gave them the Land out of which they are driven. If he be good, as they boast, how comes it to pass his people are in such ill state? Or, is he not able to better their state? Was he weak, and could not keep them in their own Land? Or doth he falsifie his word? You miserable Iews, say what this meaneth. But, by their impure life, they open'd the mouths of the Heathen more to Blaspheme, and call the Holiness of God into question; when they saw his people so unholy, they concluded as is the people, so is their God, and this, as it was a great offence, and Scandal to the Heathen, so it was a great dishonour to God.

Marginal references: Isa. 52.5. Rom. 2.24.