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He is a merchant - Or, indignantly, a merchant in whose hands are the balances of deceit! How could they love “mercy and justice,” …

He is a merchant.— The vivid and fierce light of the prophet’s words is obscured in the English version. The rend…

The Prophet is now urgently pressing the people. Having referred to the example of the patriarch, he shows how unlike him his descendants were, wit…

[He is] a merchant
Here is a change of person from "thou" to "he", from Judah to Ephraim, who is said to be a "merch…

Ephraim became a merchant: the word also signifies a Canaanite. They carried on trade on Canaanite principles, covetously and with fraud and deceit…
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Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes