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ιδου-I ο-
A--ASN γαλα-N3--ASN καταεσθιω-V1--PAI2P και-C ο-
A--APN εριον-N2N-APN περιβαλλω-V1--PMI2P και-C ο-
A--ASN παχυς-A3U-ASN σφαζω-V1--PAI2P και-C ο-
A--APN προβατον-N2N-APN εγω-
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Ezekiel 34:3
Faith # 68
68. 4. The failure of caring in the people described in Matthew shows that goats mean people who are devoted to a faith divorced from caring. We can see that the goats and sheep in Matthew 25:31-46 have the same meaning as the goat and the ram in Daniel because deeds of caring are listed for the sheep and it says that they did them, and the same deeds of caring are listed for the goats but it says that they did not do them, and that this is why these latter are condemned. A neglect of deeds is characteristic of people who are devoted to a faith divorced from caring because of their refusal to believe that deeds have anything to do with salvation or the church. When people so set aside caring—which consists of deeds—then faith fails as well, because faith comes out of caring; and when there is neither caring nor faith, there is damnation.
If the goats in this passage had meant all evil people it would have listed all the evil things they did rather than all the deeds of caring they did not do.
People like this are also meant by goats in Zechariah:
My wrath blazes against the shepherds, and I will execute judgment upon the goats. (Zechariah 10:3)
And in Ezekiel:
Behold, I am judging between sheep and sheep, between rams and goats. Is it too little for you to have eaten up the good pasture? Will you also trample what remains of the food with your feet? You attack all the weak sheep with your horns until you have scattered them. Therefore I will save my flock, so that it will no longer be prey. (Ezekiel 34:17-18, 21-22, and following)
A Faith Divorced from Caring Destroys the Church and Everything It Stands For
Ezekiel 35
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Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
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Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
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And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount Seir, I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate.
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I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
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Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:
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Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.
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Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him that passeth out and him that returneth.
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And I will fill his mountains with his slain men: in thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall they fall that are slain with the sword.
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I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
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Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the LORD was there:
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Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee.
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And thou shalt know that I am the LORD, and that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume.
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Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.
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Thus saith the Lord GOD; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate.
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As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Idumea, even all of it: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
