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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
And the word of the Lord came unto me,.... The word of prophecy from the Lord, as the Targum:
saying; as follows:
The fifth word of judgment. The furnace. In the besieged city the people shall be tried and purged. Eze 22:18 Dross - A frequent metaphor which denotes not only the corruption of the people, who have…
The same melancholy string is still harped upon, and various turns are given it, to make it affecting, that it may be influencing. The prophet must here show, or at least it is here shown him, that…
Judgment on Israel under the figure of a smelting furnace. Israel is dross and base metal, which must be flung into the furnace.