Ezekiel - 18:22



22 None of his transgressions that he has committed shall be remembered against him: in his righteousness that he has done he shall live.

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Explanation and meaning of Ezekiel 18:22.

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All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live.
I will not remember all his iniquities that he hath done: in his justice which he hath wrought, he shall live.
All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned to him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live.
All his transgressions that he hath done Are not remembered to him, In his righteousness that he hath done he liveth.
Not one of the sins which he has done will be kept in memory against him: in the righteousness which he has done he will have life.
I will not remember all his iniquities, which he has worked; by his justice, which he has worked, he shall live.
Omnes transgressiones quas fecit non venient in memoriam ei, [225] sed in justitia sua quam fecit rivet.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

All his transgressions - Shall be so completely forgiven by God's mercy, that they shall not be even mentioned to him; and if he live and die in this recovered state, he shall live with God to all eternity. And why? Hear the reason: -

All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned to him: in his (e) righteousness that he hath done he shall live.
(e) That is, in the fruit of his faith which declares that God accepts him.

All his transgressions that he hath committed,.... Before his repentance, conversion, and obedience:
they shall not be mentioned unto him; they shall not be charged upon his conscience, or brought against him in providence; he shall not be upbraided with them, or punished for them; but they shall be forgiven him, at least in such sense as to prevent temporal calamity and ruin:
in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live; he shall live "in" it, though not "for" it; this will be the fruit and consequence of his obedience and righteousness, that he shall live and not die, in the sense that has been already given, according to the tenor of the law, Leviticus 18:5.

in his righteousness . . . he shah live--in it, not for it, as if that atoned for his former sins; but "in his righteousness" he shall live, as the evidence of his being already in favor with God through the merit of Messiah, who was to come. The Gospel clears up for us many such passages (1-Peter 1:12), which were dimly understood at the time, while men, however, had light enough for salvation.

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