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John Gill's Exposition on Ezekiel 33:15
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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If the wicked restore the pledge, &c.] His neighbour’s raiment, which he has taken as a pledge for money lent him; and which, according to the law, was to be restored before sunset, (<022226>Exodus 22:26,27) which wicked men did not attend unto; but when such a man is brought to a sense of his wickedness, and repentance for it, as an evidence of it he would restore the pledge: and give again that he had robbed; to him whom he had robbed; as a thief was obliged to do, four or five fold, according to the law, (<022201>Exodus 22:1), and which, when a man did voluntarily, from the convictions of his own mind, and not by force of the civil magistrate, it was a sign of true repentance; (see <421908>Luke 19:8): and walk in the statutes of life; the rule of life and conversation, and to the keeping of which the promise of long life is annexed; and which preserve persons from dying a shameful death by the hand of the civil magistrate; statutes, which, if a man do, he shall live in them; see (<262011>Ezekiel 20:11): without committing iniquity; not living entirely without sin, which the best of men do not; but without committing grosser sins, as before; and without making a trade of sinning, and living in it: he shall surely live, he shall not die; he shall live comfortably now, and happily hereafter; he shall live a spiritual life, and not die the second death.
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