성경 주석서

The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,

The word of the Lord. — See Ezekiel 18:1 .

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Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:

There were two women. — This is the same in effect with Ezekiel 16:1-63 , but there more plainly, here parabolically expressed. Sermo est eraditus et elegans, simul tamen spurcas et obscaenus, Lavat. to set forth the hatefulness of idolatry, creature confidence, and adultery.

The daughters of one mother, — scil., Synagogae, vel Sarce. Some think the prophet alludeth to Jacob’s two wives who were sisters.

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And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.

And they committed whoredoms in Egypt. — See Ezekiel 20:8 Joshua 24:14 .

They committed whoredoms in their youth. — Like the strumpet Quartilla in Petronius, who said, Iunonem ego meam iratam habeam, si unquam me meminerim virginem fuisse. Petron. Satyricon.

There were their breasts pressed. — Violatam virginitatem mammarum laxitas consequitur.

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And the names of them [were] Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus [were] their names; Samaria [is] Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.

And the names of them were Aholah, — i.e., Her tent, not mine (so he calleth Samaria, or the ten tribes). What have I to do with it or her Compare 1 Kings 12:16 ; 1 Kings 12:28 ; 1 Kings 12:31 . She is gone to her tent, and hath set her up tabernacles, where to worship her golden idols.

The elder. — So called because more numerous and potent than the other two tribes. She was also first in the defection.

And Aholibah. — That is, my tent is in her. So Jerusalem is called, because the temple and testimonies of God’s special presence were there, as King Abijah well pleadeth it. 2 Chronicles 13:10-11

Samaria is Aholah. — In figure she is; though some have held that these were the names of two notorious strumpets in Egypt.

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And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians [her] neighbours,

And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine. — Fornicata est sub me, under colour and covert of a marriage made with me. See what a fair gloss Jeroboam set upon his foul idolatry. 1 Kings 12:28

On the Assyrians, her neighbours. — So they were now become, by the conquest of Syria.

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[Which were] clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.

Which were clothed with blue. — With rich and gorgeous attire. Vestis luxuriae nidus.

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Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them [that were] the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself.

Thus she committed her whoredoms with them. — Heb., She bestowed her whoredoms upon them; she was no niggard. A little entreaty served turn. Cuilibet sui copiam faciebat, such was her idol madness.

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Neither left she her whoredoms [brought] from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her.

Neither left she her idols brought from Egypt. — Witness her two golden calves brought therehence by Jeroboam, in imitation of Apis, a calf dedicated by the Egyptians to Serapis, their chief idol.

“ Quis nescit, qualia demens

Aegyptus portenta colat? ” - Juvenal.

For in her youth. — See on Ezekiel 23:3 .

And poured their whoredoms upon her. — This kind of language and the like is here and elsewhere used, not to teach men to speak or do foul things, but the contrary. Of Petronius’s Satyricon it is said, Tolle obscaena, et tollis omni: and that he was impurissimus scriptor purissimae Latinitatis. Of our prophet it may as truly be said, Tolle sancta et tollis omnia. See on Ezekiel 23:2 .

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