Ezekiel 20:25

Verse 25. Not good. The laws and ordinances of their enemies: or those imposed upon them by that cruel tyrant the devil, to whose power they were delivered up for their sins; ( Challoner.) which may be styled the statutes of your fathers, and so forth verse 18. Bible.—God is often said to do what he only permits. Calmet.—He abandoned them to their own perversity. Saint Jerome Deuteronomy 32:21. 37.—If God had spoken of the Decalogue, and so forth would he say such laws were not good, after he had testified that the observers shall live in them? verse 11. He established the ceremonial law, at the same time. See Kimchi. Menochius. and so forth Chal. “I have given them up to their foolish desires. They have established bad statutes and laws which will not give them life.” This seems the best explanation. Calmet.—Hebrew “Have I given … (26) and have I polluted them?” and so forth Manasse Ben. Israel. The precepts had also a bad effect, and were given in condescension to the weakness of the people, (Orig.) particularly the ceremonial part. S. Just. Saint John Chrysostom Saint Jerome and so forth—They did not justify, (Saint Augustine) and were not good, compared with those of the new law. Saint Gregory mor. xxviii. 9.—Thus Solon gave the Athenians “the best laws that they would receive,” (Plut.) though others more perfect might have been devised. Calmet.