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To: SoothingDave
The soul that sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself. (Ezekiel 18:20)

Isaiah says our righteousness is as filthy rags. So who's Ezekiel referring to as "righteous"?

46,932 posted on 04/15/2003 2:47:32 PM PDT by Invincibly Ignorant
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To: Invincibly Ignorant
Isaiah says our righteousness is as filthy rags. So who's Ezekiel referring to as "righteous"?

Consider a few other verses from Ezekiel:

But when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity and does the same abominable things that the wicked man does, shall he live? None of the righteous deeds which he has done shall be remembered; for the treachery of which he is guilty and the sin he has committed, he shall die. (Ezekiel 18:24)

Though I say to the righteous that he shall surely live, yet if he trusts in his righteousness and commits iniquity, none of his righteous deeds shall be remembered; but in the iniquity that he has committed he shall die. (Ezekiel 33:13)

I think Isaiah 64 should be read in this context -- a man/men who have performed righteous deeds, but who have trusted in their righteousness and committed iniquity.

In Ezekiel, then, the righteous man is the man who does righteous deeds and who does not sin -- or who sins, but repents.

46,945 posted on 04/15/2003 9:44:04 PM PDT by malakhi (fundamentalist unitarian)
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