حزقيال ١٨:٣٠
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مِنْ أَجْلِ ذلِكَ أَقْضِي عَلَيْكُمْ يَا بَيْتَ إِسْرَائِيلَ، كُلِّ وَاحِدٍ كَطُرُقِهِ، يَقُولُ السَّيِّدُ الرَّبُّ. تُوبُوا وَارْجِعُوا عَنْ كُلِّ مَعَاصِيكُمْ، وَلاَ يَكُونُ لَكُمُ الإِثْمُ مَهْلَكَةً.
التفاسير
مقتطفات جُمعت من تفاسير منشورة لترسيخ القراءة.
We have here the conclusion and application of this whole matter. After a fair trial at the bar of right reason the verdict is brought in on God's side; it appears that his ways are equal. Judgment therefore is next to be given; and one would think it should be a judgment of condemnation, nothing short of Go, you cursed, into everlasting fire. But, behold, a miracle of mercy; the day of grace and divine patience is yet lengthened out; and therefore, though God will at last judge every one according to his ways, yet he waits to be gracious, and closes all with a call to repentance and a promise of pardon upon repentance. I. Here are four necessary duties that we are called to, all amounting to the same: - 1. We must repent; we must change our mind and change our ways; we must be sorry for what we have done amiss and ashamed of it, and go as far as we can towards the undoing of it again. 2. We must turn ourselves from all our transgressions, Eze 18:30 and again Eze 18:32. Turn yourselves, face about; turn from sin, nay, turn against it as the enemy you loathe, turn to God as the friend you love. 3. We must cast away from us all our transgressions; we must abandon and forsake them with a resolution never to return to them again, give sin a bill of divorce, break all the leagues we have made with it, throw it overboard, as the mariners did Jonah (for it has raised the storm), cast it out of the soul, and crucify it as a malefactor. 4. We must make us a new heart and a new spirit. This was the matter of a promise, Eze 11:19. Here it is the matter of a precept. We must do our endeavour, and then God will not be wanting to us to give us his grace. St. Austin well explains this precept. Deus non jubet impossibilia, sed jubendo monet et facere quod possis et petere quod non poss…
افتح المصدر ↗18:30-32 This chapter concludes with a passionate appeal to the people of Israel to turn back and live. It was not too late for them to repent, turn from their sins, and be forgiven. God promised a new heart and a new spirit (11:19; 36:26) to all who would turn from their rebellion and humbly come to him.
افتح المصدر ↗الشواهد المتقابلة
مقاطع أخرى يربطها المجتمع بهذا المقطع أكثر من غيرها. انقر لتقرأها.
فَإِنَّ ابْنَ الإِنْسَانِ سَوْفَ يَأْتِي فِي مَجْدِ أَبِيهِ مَعَ مَلاَئِكَتِهِ، وَحِينَئِذٍ يُجَازِي كُلَّ وَاحِدٍ حَسَبَ عَمَلِهِ.
فَإِذَا رَجَعَ الشِّرِّيرُ عَنْ جَمِيعِ خَطَايَاهُ الَّتِي فَعَلَهَا وَحَفِظَ كُلَّ فَرَائِضِي وَفَعَلَ حَقًّا وَعَدْلاً فَحَيَاةً يَحْيَا. لاَ يَمُوتُ.
قَائِلاً: «تُوبُوا، لأَنَّهُ قَدِ اقْتَرَبَ مَلَكُوتُ السَّماوَاتِ.
كَلاَّ! أَقُولُ لَكُمْ: بَلْ إِنْ لَمْ تَتُوبُوا فَجَمِيعُكُمْ كَذلِكَ تَهْلِكُونَ.
لِذلِكَ قُلْ لِبَيْتِ إِسْرَائِيلَ: هكَذَا قَالَ السَّيِّدُ الرَّبُّ: تُوبُوا وَارْجِعُوا عَنْ أَصْنَامِكُمْ، وَعَنْ كُلِّ رَجَاسَاتِكُمُ اصْرِفُوا وُجُوهَكُمْ.
اَلآنَ النِّهَايَةُ عَلَيْكِ، وَأُرْسِلُ غَضَبِي عَلَيْكِ، وَأَحْكُمُ عَلَيْكِ كَطُرُقِكِ، وَأَجْلِبُ عَلَيْكِ كُلَّ رَجَاسَاتِكِ.
كَمَا كُتِبَ فِي شَرِيعَةِ مُوسَى، قَدْ جَاءَ عَلَيْنَا كُلُّ هذَا الشَّرِّ، وَلَمْ نَتَضَرَّعْ إِلَى وَجْهِ الرَّبِّ إِلهِنَا لِنَرْجعَ مِنْ آثَامِنَا وَنَفْطِنَ بِحَقِّكَ.
كَلاَّ! أَقُولُ لَكُمْ: بَلْ إِنْ لَمْ تَتُوبُوا فَجَمِيعُكُمْ كَذلِكَ تَهْلِكُونَ».
وَأَنْتَ فَارْجعْ إِلَى إِلهِكَ. اِحْفَظِ الرَّحْمَةَ وَالْحَقَّ، وَانْتَظِرْ إِلهَكَ دَائِمًا.
قُلْ لَهُمْ: حَيٌّ أَنَا، يَقُولُ السَّيِّدُ الرَّبُّ، إِنِّي لاَ أُسَرُّ بِمَوْتِ الشِّرِّيرِ، بَلْ بِأَنْ يَرْجعَ الشِّرِّيرُ عَنْ طَرِيقِهِ وَيَحْيَا. اِرْجِعُوا، ارْجِعُوا عَنْ طُرُقِكُمُ الرَّدِيئَةِ! فَلِمَاذَا تَمُوتُونَ يَا بَيْتَ إِسْرَائِيلَ؟