But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.
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Gill's Exposition
And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity,.... Of Jeconiah's captivity, when Ezekiel with others were carried into Babylon; see Eze 1:2.
in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the…
Adam Clarke
He shall live thereby - "The wages of sin is death;" the "gift of God is eternal life." It is a miserable trade by which a man cannot live; such a trade is sin.
These verses are the substance of what we had before (Eze 18:20, etc.) and they are so full and express a declaration of the terms on which people stand with God (as the former were of the terms on…
These verses sum up the whole principles of the passage, cf. Eze 18:26-27. On Eze 33:33 cf. Eze 18:25; Eze 18:29.