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Ezekiel 9:8

Ezekiel 9:8

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

I fell upon my face, etc. The ministers of vengeance and the prophet were left in the courts of the temple alone. His human, national sympathies led him, as they led Moses (; ) and St.

Paul () to undertake the work of intercession. With the words which had been the keynote of Isaiah's prophecies, probably present to his thoughts (, et al.), he asks whether Jehovah will indeed destroy all that remnant of Israel (comp.

) who might be as the germ of hope for the future.

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