30. the hedge —the wall (see on Ezekiel 22:1 ); image for leading the people to repentance. the gap —the breach ( Ezekiel 22:1- : ); image for interceding between the people and God ( Genesis 20:7 ; Exodus 32:11 ; Numbers 16:48 ). I found none — ( Numbers 16:48- : ) —not that literally there was not a righteous man in the city. For Jeremiah, Baruch, c., were still there but Jeremiah had been forbidden to pray for the people ( Numbers 16:48- : ), as being doomed to wrath. None now, of the godly, knowing the desperate state of the people, and God's purpose as to them, was willing longer to interpose between God's wrath and them. And none "among them," that is, among those just enumerated as guilty of such sins ( Numbers 16:48- : ), was morally able for such an office. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-31" class="com-number"
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