Ezekiel 3:18

“When I say unto the wicked, thou shalt surely die, &c.] Not only a corporeal but an eternal death for this is what the law threatens with, and there the Lord says this; and this is the wages, end, and issue of sin, if grace prevent not: and thou givest him not warning; of the evil nature of sin, and of the danger it exposes to: nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way; to abstain from it, and live another course of life: to save his life; for such warning, caution, exhortation, and doctrine, may be a means of converting a sinner from the evil of his way, and of saving a soul from death, (<540416>1 Timothy 4:16 <590520>James 5:20); the same wicked [man] shall die in his iniquity;…”

“warning . . . speakest to warn--The repetition implies that it is not enough to warn once in passing, but that the warning is to be inculcated continually (Ti2 4:2, "in season, out of season"; Act 20:31, "night and day with tears"). save--Eze 2:5 had seemingly taken away all hope of salvation; but the reference there was to the mass of the people whose case was hopeless; a few individuals, however, were reclaimable. die in . . . iniquity-- (Joh 8:21, Joh 8:24). Men are not to flatter themselves that their ignorance, owing to the negligence of their teachers, will save them (Rom 2:12, "As many as have sinned without law, shall also perish without law").”

“This passage anticipates the great moral principle of divine government Ezekiel 18:0 that each man is individually responsible for his own actions, and will be judged according to these and these alone. Ezekiel 3:20 I lay a stumblingblock before him - I bring him to trial by placing difficulties and temptations in his way (compare Ezekiel 7:19; Ezekiel 44:12 margin; Ezekiel 14:3-4). It is true that God tempts no man in order to his destruction, but in the course of His Providence He permits men to be tried in order that their faith may be approved, and in this trial some who seem to be righteous fall. Because thou ... his blood ... - So far as the prophet was concerned, the neglect of his…”

“I say: Eze 18:4, Eze 18:13, Eze 18:20, Eze 33:6, Eze 33:8; Gen 2:17, Gen 3:3, Gen 3:4; Num 26:65; Kg2 1:4; Isa 3:11; Luk 13:3, Luk 13:5; Eph 5:5, Eph 5:6 to save: Eze 18:30-32; Act 2:40, Act 3:19; Ti1 4:16; Jam 5:19, Jam 5:20 the same: Eze 33:6, Eze 33:9, Eze 33:10; Pro 14:32; Joh 8:21, Joh 8:24 but: Eze 34:10; Gen 9:5, Gen 9:6, Gen 42:22; Sa2 4:11; Luk 11:50, Luk 11:51; Act 20:26, Act 20:27; Ti1 5:22 Ezekiel 3:19”