The word of the LORD came to me:
When God promised the poor captives a glorious return, in due time, to their own land, it was a great discouragement to their hopes that they were unworthy, utterly unworthy, of such a favour; therefore, to remove that discouragement, God here shows them that he would do it for them purely for his own name's sake, that he might be glorified in them and by...
Commenting on Ezekiel 36:16-24
Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me,.... Here begins another prophecy, which was delivered about the same time with the former: saying; as follows:
Eze 36:16-21 The Lord will extend His forbearance, for the sake of His holy name, to the people who have been rejected on account of their sins. - Eze 36:16. And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying, Eze 36:17.
Commenting on Ezekiel 36:16-21