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John Gill's Exposition on Ezekiel 35:6
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord God, &c.] The form of an oath; the Lord swears by himself, because he could swear by no greater; and which he never does but in matters of importance, and for the confirmation of them, as the following is: I will prepare thee unto blood; prepare them for war, which will issue in slaughter and blood, such as the battle at Armageddon, (<661614>Revelation 16:14,16 19:18,19): or, “I will make thee blood”f593; nothing else but blood; a mere “Aceldama”, a field of blood; turn thee into blood, as the sea, rivers, and fountains will be, at the pouring out the second and third vials, (<661603>Revelation 16:3,4): and blood shall pursue thee; the guilt and vengeance of blood; or the avengers of the blood of the saints; the angels that shall pour out the vials of wrath on Rome; the ten kings that shall hate the whore. So the Targum; “they that slay with the sword shall pursue thee;” or the shedders of blood, as Ben Melech: saith thou hast not hated blood; Jarchi reads it; “hast hated blood”: which he interprets of the blood of the sacrifices; as others, mentioned by him, of the blood of circumcision; and others, of his brother, who was his flesh and blood, and hated by him; but it is a figurative phrase, by which less is expressed than is intended. The sense is, thou hast loved blood; thou hast delighted in shedding blood; hast thirsted after it, and drank plentifully of it, and even been drunk with it, as the whore of Rome is said to be, (<661705>Revelation 17:5): even blood shall pursue thee; this is repeated for the confirmation of it; and this was measure for measure; a just retaliation; having shed blood, it was but right that blood should pursue, and be given, (<661605>Revelation 16:5,6).
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