Ezekiel — Chapter 39
The destruction of Gog and the subsequent seven-year burying of his weapons and seven-month burial of the dead: Lapide reads the sevenfold repetitions as indicating complete and comprehensive divine victory. The feast of birds and beasts on Gog's army (v. 17-20) he connects to Apoc. 19:17-21 (the supper of the great God).
Verse 7
My holy name I will make known in the midst of my people Israel: Lapide reads the divine name's revelation through judgment as a type of the evangelization of all nations — God's name is made known precisely through the dramatic acts of sacred history. He cites Ps. 76:1 ('His name is great in Israel') and Acts 2's Pentecost as fulfillments.
Verse 25
Therefore thus says the Lord God: Now I will restore the fortunes of Jacob and have mercy on the whole house of Israel: Lapide's theology of divine mercy following judgment. God's final word is always mercy (cf. Micah 7:18), not condemnation. He connects to Romans 11:25-32 on the mystery of Israel and the full entry of the Gentiles, reading Ezekiel's promises within Paul's eschatological framework.
Verse 29
'Et non abscendam ultra faciem meam ab eis, eo quod effuderim Spiritum meum super domum Israel' — I will no longer hide my face from them, because I have poured out my Spirit upon the house of Israel: Lapide reads this as the ultimate Pentecostal promise, identifying the permanent outpouring of the Spirit with the new and permanent dispensation of the Church.