Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
then I said, I will . . . But, etc.—that is, (God speaking in condescension to human modes of conception) their spiritual degradation deserved I should destroy them, "but I wrought (namely, the deliverance 'out of . . . Egypt') for My name's sake"; not for their merits (a rebuke to their national pride). God's "name" means the sum-total of His perfections. To manifest these, His gratuitous mercy abounding above their sins, yet without wrong to His justice, and so to set forth His glory, was and is the ultimate end of His dealings (Ezekiel 20:14, Ezekiel 20:22; II Samuel 7:23; Isaiah 63:12; Romans 9:17).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Ezekiel 20:8:
Ezekiel 16:26
Ezekiel 23:3
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