| Barnes' Notes on the Bible To cease - Because they are stricken and consumed. Compare marginal reference. All women - i. e., all countries. Clarke's Commentary on the BibleThus will I cause lewdness to cease - Idolatry; and from that time to the present day the Jews never relapsed into idolatry. Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleThus will I cause to cease lewdness out of the land,.... There being no opportunity for it, nor any to commit it; what were not destroyed by famine, sword, and pestilence, during the siege, were carried captive; and, when they returned, were never more given to idolatry; see Ezekiel 23:27, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness; that is, that all provinces, as the Targum, all kingdoms; states, churches, and people, hearing and reading the judgments of God on this people for their idolatry, may learn to shun it; it is even an instruction to us, at this distance, not to commit idolatry, as they did, 1 Corinthians 10:7. The church of Rome ought to observe this. Geneva Study BibleThus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all {t} women may be taught not to do after your lewdness. (t) Meaning, all other cities and countries. Wesley's Notes 23:48 Lewdness - Idolatry. And indeed we do not read of any after their return out of this captivity. Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary48. (Eze 23:27). that all . may be taught not to do, &c.-(De 13:11). Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary23:1-49 A history of the apostacy of God's people from him, and the aggravation thereof. - In this parable, Samaria and Israel bear the name Aholah, her own tabernacle; because the places of worship those kingdoms had, were of their own devising. Jerusalem and Judah bear the name of Aholibah, my tabernacle is in her, because their temple was the place which God himself had chosen, to put his name there. The language and figures are according to those times. Will not such humbling representations of nature keep open perpetual repentance and sorrow in the soul, hiding pride from our eyes, and taking us from self-righteousness? Will it not also prompt the soul to look to God continually for grace, that by his Holy Spirit we may mortify the deeds of the body, and live in holy conversation and godliness? |