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and repays those who hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him who hates him, he will repay him to his face.
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God's Justice is Personal
Commentators explain that God repaying those who hate Him "to their face" means His judgment is not abstract or distant. It is a direct, personal, and often public consequence for sin. Scholars like John Calvin suggest it signifies God directly confronting and humbling the pride of those who audaciously defy Him.
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Deuteronomy
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18th Century
Presbyterian
See (Deuteronomy 6:10) note.
(Deuteronomy 7:5) Their groves - Render, their idols of wood: the reference is t…
19th Century
Anglican
These verses are a direct comment on the second commandment. Thousands of them that love Him are here expanded into a thousand generat…
16th Century
Protestant
And repays those who hate him. No mention is made here of the vengeance “to the third and fourth generation.”222
Those w…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And repays them that hate him to their face, to destroythem Openly, publicly, and at …
Here is a strict caution against all friendship and fellowship with idols and idolaters. Those who are in communion with God must have no associati…
