Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 36:31

31 Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall loath your selves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.

When I have given you my Spirit, renewed your hearts, brought you by miraculous mercy out of Captivity in a strange Land unto Liberty in your own.

Call to mind, review, and examine all your past life.

Ways opposite to Gods, therefore both their own by choice, and also evil in their very nature, the ways the Prophets condemned, and threatned, as chap. 22. and Ier. 3.5. &c.

It is a Meiosis, not Good, i. e. exceeding evil like, yea worse, then other Nations, chap. 5.6. then Sodom, chap. 16.46.

See chap. 6.9. Your mind shall abhor what you loved, and deeply grieve at what you rejoyced in, when Swine, ye wallowed in mire, when made sheep, you shall as much fear, and fly from it.

Not in sight of others, but Repentance in the chief parts lieth more retired and inward, and loaths sins that are in the heart, tho' none ever knew them beside God and his own Soul. This fruit is the first and most sure sign of true Repentance.

Marginal references: chap. 16.61, 63.; Lev. 26.39. chap. 20.43.