Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 5. If a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right] If he be just or holy within, and do what is according to law and equity. What is meant by this, is immediately specified.
Matthew Henry Commentary
- Jerusalem like an unfruitful vine.
If a vine be fruitful, it is valuable. But if not fruitful, it is worthless and useless, it is cast into the fire. Thus man is capable of yielding a precious fruit, in living to God; this is the sole end of his existence; and if he fails in this, he is of no use but to be destroyed. What blindness then attaches to those who live in the tota neglect of God and of true religion! This similitude is applied to Jerusalem. Let us beware of an unfruitful profession. Let us come to Christ, and seek to abide in him, and to have his words abide in us _________________________________________________
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