Lying words. —With special reference to those already cited in Jeremiah 7:4.

Will you quote the very decree of God as an excuse for your sin?

Will you make it out that even he is partaker in your criminality?

Tha…

He again teaches what we observed yesterday — that the glorying of the Jews was foolish, while they boasted of the Temple and of their sacrifices t…

Behold, you trust in lying words
What they are dissuaded from, (Jeremiah 7:4), is here affirmed they did…

No observances, professions, or supposed revelations will profit, if people do not amend their ways and their actions. None can claim an interest i…

1. Here, the prophet excludes the third means of a istance on which the people might have relied: the practice of their religion. He addre e…