John Gill's Exposition on Ezekiel 20:14

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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But I wrought for my name’s sake, that it should not be polluted before the Heathen, &c.] (See Gill on “<262009>Ezekiel 20:9”); who would be ready to say it was for want of power, or faithfulness, or, goodness, that he did not bring them into the promised land; or there was no such land to bring them to God’s own glory was concerned, and that is his ultimate end in all he does; and is of more weight with him than any other argument whatever: in whose sight I brought them out; from Egypt, into the wilderness; this was done publicly in the sight of the Egyptians, they urging them to be gone.

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