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NASB | Ezekiel 18:20 "The person who sins will die. The son will not bear the punishment for the father's iniquity, nor will the father bear the punishment for the son's iniquity; the righteousness of the righteous will be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked will be upon himself. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Ezekiel 18:20 "The person who sins [is the one that] will die. The son will not bear the punishment for the sin of the father, nor will the father bear the punishment for the sin of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be on himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on himself. |
Subject: Contrast Exodus 20:5 and Ezekiel 18:20? |
Bible Note: beja I am thinking of what you say about "who is being referred to" I think that is very key here. God was referring to the people of Israel under the leaderhsip of Moses and in this passage God is promising to punish those who practiced idol worship by punishing their descendants of those who had hated God, that is a clear. It reminds me of how God did not necessarily punish Ham for his crime, but punished Canaan and his descendants instead. This is why I do not see how "visiting the inquity of the fathers on the children" in Exodus, is not somehow being changed by God to that He will no longer do that in Ezekiel. Father's iniquity is father's iniquity. There seem to be two differences between passages. In Exodus it is talking about idol worship, in Ezekiel is seems to be talking about any sin including idol worship. In Exodus it is talking about corporate sin, in Ezekiel it is talking about individual sin. In answer to your three questions - 1)Exodus is saying God avenges the sins of idol worship of the father on the sons. Ezekiel is saying sons no longer carry any of the sins of the father regardless of the type of sin it is. 2)Exodus is saying God will avenge the sins of the fathers who turn away from God and worship idols down onto the third and fourth generations of the sons without qualifying if they also do so. Ezekiel is saying the person who sins will bear their sin and their soul will die unless they repent, and the types of sins are qualified in verse 5-13 and includes idol worship. 3)Exodus has God both giving specific commandments of what Israel should do and what He will God if Israel did not comply, and is also a snapshot of His character as in Exodus 34. Ezekiel has God giving specfic explanations of what He will now do things like in keeping with both passages of Exodus of how He deals with sin, and as well provides a next snapshot of what kind of character He has in dealing with sinners. 4)In both the Exodus and Ezekiel passages God lays out how He will deal with sin, either corporately, or indivdualy, and in both passages deals with idol worship. Question, may we safely say that while God surely intended to punish corporate idol worship onto generations, that God was willing to only impute individual sins to the doer rather than the descendant, and be able to says this about those who committed idol worship? Next question - or is it that God did a progression of how He chose to impute the punishment of sin? That there was a change then, of imputation of sin from the father onto the sons back onto the original doer? Thank you very much for your insights. blessings abound, bowler |