Ezekiel - 36:29



29 I will save you from all your uncleanness: and I will call for the grain, and will multiply it, and lay no famine on you.

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Explanation and meaning of Ezekiel 36:29.

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I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you.
And I will save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the grain, and will multiply it, and lay no famine upon you.
And I will save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for corn, and will multiply it, and will lay no famine upon you.
And I have saved you from all your uncleannesses, And I have called unto the corn, and multiplied it, And I have put no famine upon you.
And I will make you free from all your unclean ways: and at my voice the grain will come up and be increased, and I will not let you be short of food.
And I will save you from all your filth. And I will call for grain, and I will multiply it, and I will not impose a famine upon you.

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I will also save you from all your uncleannesses - I repeat it; "I Will save you from all your sins."

I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the (o) grain, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you.
(o) Under the abundance of temporal benefits he concludes the spiritual graces.

And I will also save you from all your uncleannesses,.... From all their filthy lusts of pride, envy, malice, covetousness, whoredom, blasphemy, and infidelity, to which the Jews are now addicted; but at this time shall be saved from the power and dominion of them by the sanctifying grace of the Spirit; and from the guilt and pollution of them by the blood of Christ sprinkled on them; and this, not from one, or some of them only, but from all of them; all Israel will be saved, and they will be saved from all their sins, Romans 11:25,
and I will call for the corn, and will increase it; which shall answer to the call of God, as a servant to his master; and shall spring up out of the earth in great abundance; and which shall grow, and increase, and bring forth much fruit; and yield bread to the eater, and seed to the sower: and which is to be understood, not of corn in a literal sense only, but of corn in a spiritual sense; of all spiritual provisions, the word and ordinances, and especially the corn of wheat, Christ Jesus; who is the sum and substance of the Gospel and his ordinances, and is in them food for the faith of his people; see Zac 9:17, and
lay no famine upon you; neither a famine of bread, or of water; nor of hearing the word of the Lord; but shall have plenty of provisions, both for soul and body; see Amos 8:11.

save . . . from all . . . uncleannesses--the province of Jesus, according to the signification of His name (Matthew 1:21). To be specially exercised in behalf of the Jews in the latter days (Romans 11:26).
call for . . . corn--as a master "calls for" a servant; all the powers and productions of nature are the servants of Jehovah (Psalm 105:16; Matthew 8:8-9). Compare as to the subordination of all the intermediate agents to the Great First Cause, who will give "corn" and all good things to His people, Hosea 2:21-22; Zac 8:12.

I will also save you - I will continue to save you. From all your uncleannesses - Salvation from all uncleannessess, includes justification, entire sanctification, and meetness for glory. The corn - All necessaries comprised in one.

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