And you say, Why? - They again act the innocent, or half-ignorant. What had they to do with their wives’ womanly tears? He who knows the hea…

The prophet now rebukes the two great sins of the nation at this time:

1. Marriage with idolatresses.
2. Divorce of the first (Isra…

The Prophet tells us here, as before, how inclined the priests were to protest loudly. It is a very common thing for hypocrites to immediately rais…

Yet you say, Wherefore ?
&c.] What is the meaning of the women covering the altar with tears? as if they knew not wh…

Corrupt practices are the fruit of corrupt principles; and he who is false to his God will not be true to his fellow human beings. In contempt of t…