John Gill's Exposition on Ezekiel 3:18

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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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; with the pollution and guilt of sin upon him, and so be punished for it; (see <430824>John 8:24); but his blood will I require at thine hands; thou shalt be answerable for him; his death shall be laid to thy charge, and thou shalt be chastised for thy negligence; (see <442026>Acts 20:26).

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