Jeremiah gives in succession the main characteristics of the teaching of the false prophets. The first is that they steal God’s words from one anot…

That steal my words ... — Another note of the counterfeit prophet is found in the lack of any living personal originality…

Borrowed sermons – pages of other people's experience – fragments pulled from old or new divines – nothing of their own, nothing that God ever said…

Jeremiah again returns to the false teachers, who were the authors of all the evils; for they fascinated the people with their flatteries, so that …

Therefore, behold, I [am] against the prophets, says the
Lord
The false prophets, wit…

People cannot be hidden from God's all-seeing eye. Will they never see what judgments they prepare for themselves?

Let them consider what a …

Here, he recalls the three methods of deception.

1. First, from a corrupt use of Scripture: who steal my words, as if to …