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Ezekiel’s call to the prophetic ministry came to him in exile in Babylonia during the period leading up to the final capture of Jerusalem and destruction of the temple. The first half of the book which bears his name pronounces God’s judgment on his people in the face of the widespread belief that, despite their persistent unfaithfulness and idolatry, God would never ultimately permit their city...

duped by it—he must now encourage the sinful to repent in the awareness that it is the chief glory of God to forgive rather than to condemn.321 To repeat, we do not have here a doctrine of justification by works. Ezekiel’s concern is with the direction of the heart rather than with a notional balancing of evil against good. Where a man’s attitude to God is as it ought to be, ‘he will surely live; he will not die!’ Further, ‘None of all his transgressions that he has committed will be remembered against
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