Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Because, even because--The repetition heightens the emphasis.
Peace--safety to the nation. Ezekiel confirms Jeremiah 6:14; Jeremiah 8:11.
one--literally, "this one"; said contemptuously, as in 2 Chronicles 28:22.
a wall--rather, "a loose wall." Ezekiel had said that the false prophets did not "go up into the gaps, or make up the breaches" (Ezekiel 13:5), as good architects do; now he adds that they make a bustling show of anxiety about repairing the wall; but it is without right mortar, and therefore of no use.
one . . . others--besides individual effort, they jointly co-operated to delude the people.
daubed . . . with untempered mortar--as sand without lime, mud without straw [GROTIUS]. FAIRBAIRN translates, "plaster it with whitewash." But besides the hypocrisy of merely outwardly "daubing" to make the wall look fair (Matthew 23:27, Matthew 23:29; Acts 23:3), there is implied the unsoundness of the wall from the absence of true uniting cement; the "untempered cement" answering to the lie of the prophets, who say, in support of their prophecies, "Thus saith the Lord, when the Lord hath not spoken" (Ezekiel 22:28).
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Jeremiah 6:14
Jeremiah 8:11
Jeremiah 23:17
Jeremiah 37:17
Ezekiel 13:18
Ezekiel 22:28
Matthew 7:15
1 Thessalonians 5:3
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