Eze 16:40-41, Joh 8:5 | JFB | e4.org | 40. ( ). Compare as to the destruction under Titus, .

‏ Ezekiel 16:40-41

40. (Eze 23:10, 47). Compare as to the destruction under Titus, Lu 19:43, 44.

41. The result of the awful judgment shall be, when divine vengeance has run its course, it shall cease.

women—the surrounding Gentile nations to whom thou shalt be an object of mocking (Ps 137:7).

I will cause thee to cease . . . harlot— (Eze 23:27). Thou shalt no longer be able to play the harlot through My judgments.

thou . . . shall give . . . no hire . . . any more—Thou shalt have none to give.

‏ John 8:5

4, 5. woman . . . in adultery . . . Moses . . . commanded . . . should be stoned—simply put to death (De 22:22), but in aggravated cases, at least in later times, this was probably by stoning (Eze 16:40).

but what sayest thou—hoping, whatever He might answer, to put Him in the wrong:—if He said, Stone her, that would seem a stepping out of His province; if He forbade it, that would hold Him up as a relaxer of the public morals. But these cunning hypocrites were overmatched.