Eze 13:19 | JFB | STEP | 19. handfuls-- expressing the paltry gain for which they bartered immortal souls (compare , ; ). They "polluted" God by making His name the cloak under which they uttered falsehoods. among my people-- an aggravation of their sin, that they committed it "among the people" whom God had chosen as peculiarly His own, and among whom He had His temple. It would have been a sin to have done so even among the Gentiles, who knew not God; much more so among the people of God (compare ). slay ... souls that should not die, &c.-- to predict the slaying or perdition of the godly whom I will save. As true ministers are said to save and slay their hearers, according to the spirit respectively in which these receive their message ( , ), so false ministers imitate them; but they promise safety to those on the broad way to ruin and predict ruin to those on the narrow way of God. my people that hear your lies-- who are therefore wilfully deceived, so that their guilt lies at their own door ( ).

‏ Ezekiel 13:19

19. handfuls--expressing the paltry gain for which they bartered immortal souls (compare Mi 3:5, 11; He 12:16). They "polluted" God by making His name the cloak under which they uttered falsehoods.

among my people--an aggravation of their sin, that they committed it "among the people" whom God had chosen as peculiarly His own, and among whom He had His temple. It would have been a sin to have done so even among the Gentiles, who knew not God; much more so among the people of God (compare Pr 28:21).

slay ... souls that should not die, &c.--to predict the slaying or perdition of the godly whom I will save. As true ministers are said to save and slay their hearers, according to the spirit respectively in which these receive their message (2Co 2:15, 16), so false ministers imitate them; but they promise safety to those on the broad way to ruin and predict ruin to those on the narrow way of God.

my people that hear your lies--who are therefore wilfully deceived, so that their guilt lies at their own door (Joh 3:19).