13. Pelaliah--probably the ringleader of the scorners
(Eze 11:1);
his being stricken dead (like Ananias,
Acts 5. 5)
was an earnest of the destruction of the rest of the twenty-five, as
Ezekiel had foretold, as also of the general ruin.
fell . . . upon . . .
face--(See on
Eze 9:8).
wilt thou make a full end of the remnant--Is Pelatiah's destruction
to be the token of the destruction of all, even of the remnant? The
people regarded Pelatiah as a mainstay of the city. His name (derived
from a Hebrew root, "a remnant," or else "God delivers") suggested
hope. Is that hope, asks Ezekiel, to be disappointed?
JFB.
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