The blood of the just -Jeremiah 26:7–24 exhibits priests and prophets as the prime movers in an attempt to silence the word of G…

That have shed the blood of the just ... —The words point to incidents like the death of Zechariah the son of Jehoiada ([…

The Prophet, as if dealing with a matter already fully proven, rebukes the Jews so that he might, as was necessary, humble their pride. If he had a…

For the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests Aben Ezra interprets this of …

Nothing ripens a people more for ruin, nor fills the measure faster, than the sins of priests and prophets. The king himself cannot escape, for Div…

Here he gives the reason for the destruction, so that the astonishment would cease.

And first, there is the fault of the prelates: of …