Will ye steal. —The English obscures the emphasis of the Hebrew idiom which gives the verbs as a series of infinitives, What! …

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…

The meaning seems to be suspended in the first verse, when he says, Whether to steal, to kill, and to commit adultery, etc.; but there is …

Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely , &c.] At the same time they offered sacrifices, and trust…

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…