20 (A)And when they entered unto the heathen, whither they went, they polluted mine holy Name, when they said of them, These are the people of the Lord, and are gone out of his land.

21 But I favored mine holy [a]Name, which the house of Israel had polluted among the heathen, whither they went.

22 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God, I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine [b]holy Name’s sake, which ye polluted among the heathen, whither ye went.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 36:21 And therefore would not suffer my Name to be had in contempt, as the heathen would have reproached me, if I had suffered my Church to perish.
  2. Ezekiel 36:22 This excludeth from man all dignity, and means to deserve anything by, seeing that God referreth the whole to himself, and that only for the glory of his holy Name.

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