Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 5:10
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Ezekiel5:10
10 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat the fathers, and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds.
And this explains what is above threatned.
No History that I know of that does mention any thing like this, barbarous Indians fell one another, and some report (as I take it) that Children among them unnaturally murther aged Parents, but they eat them not.
It may intimate their doing this publickly.
This was verified when ye were fetcht away, who were left at the departure of the Besiegers, and when the very small remnant with Iohanan fled into Egypt.
Marginal references: Lev. 26.29. Deut. 28.53. 2 King. 6.29. Jer. 19.9. Lam. 2 20.4.10 Ba[illegible: 1 letter]. 2.3.
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