And they have made others ... - Rather, “and they hope for the confirmation of their word.” They come to believe their own lies.

EXCURSUS D: ON CHAPTER 13:6, 7, AND 17.

In these verses a broad and crucial distinction is made between the self-imagined vi…

Here again he generally declares that those false prophets were vain, and this assertion depends on the principle that they had spoken from their o…

They have seen vanity, and lying divination
The visions the false prophets pretended to see were nothing but the fru…

Where God gives a warrant to do anything, he gives wisdom.

What they delivered was not what they had seen or heard, as is true of what the m…