Charles Ellicott Commentary


Charles Ellicott Commentary
"In that day shalt thou not be put to shame for all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me; for then I will take away out of the midst of thee thy proudly exulting ones, and thou shalt no more be haughty in my holy mountain." — Zephaniah 3:11 (ASV)
No more be haughty ...—His very privileges—the adoption and the Shechinah, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the Temple service—had until now been used by the Jew as a pretext for stubbornness. “We have Abraham for our father,” “The temple of the Lord are these”: such was their response to the preaching of repentance. The reinstated nation will be purged of this spiritual pride.