Ezekiel — Chapter 11
Chapter 11 contains Ezekiel's intercession for Israel (v. 13) and the great Messianic promise of the new heart (vv. 19-20). Lapide structures the chapter around the contrast between the false security of those remaining in Jerusalem ('haec est olla, nos caro') and the true hope of the exiles in Babylon who will receive a new heart.
Verse 5
The Spirit of the Lord fell upon Ezekiel: Lapide distinguishes between the prophetic motion of the Spirit (for proclamation) and the sanctifying indwelling of the Spirit (for personal holiness), teaching that both forms of divine action are distinct gifts, though the latter grounds the former.
Verse 13
Pelatiah the prince dies as Ezekiel prophesies: Lapide reads this as a dramatic confirmation of the prophetic word's power and a type of the sudden deaths that divine judgment sometimes visits on the proud in the very act of their sin. He cites similar instances from Ananias and Sapphira (Acts 5).
Verse 19
'Dabo eis cor unum, et spiritum novum ponam in visceribus eorum' — I will give them one heart and a new spirit: Lapide argues this is fulfilled primarily in the Church through baptism and the indwelling Holy Spirit. He follows Augustine's De Spiritu et Littera: the new heart is the infused theological virtues replacing the hardened will enslaved to sin.
Verse 20
'Ut in preceptis meis ambulant' — that they may walk in my precepts: Lapide emphasizes that the gift of the new heart is ordered to moral obedience, not merely to interior consolation. Grace is given for the performance of God's will, a point he uses against antinomian interpretations.