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Because with lies you have grieved the heart of the righteous, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, and be saved alive:
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The Two-Fold Spiritual Poison
Commentators explain that false teaching has a destructive, two-pronged effect. It discourages the righteous with lies and needless anxieties, attacking the confidence God wants them to have. Simultaneously, it emboldens the wicked with false assurances of peace, preventing them from seeing their need for repentance.
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Ezekiel
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18th Century
Presbyterian
A rebuke to the false prophetesses, and a declaration that God will confound them and deliver their victims from their snares. Women were sometimes…
19th Century
Anglican
Likewise, you son of man, set your face ... —This passage deals with a class of people, the false prophetesses, who are not mentio…
16th Century
Protestant
He explains in other words what we saw yesterday, but the repetition adds to the weight of the matter. The Prophet therefore shows that he had a ju…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Because with lies you have made the heart of the righteous sad , &c.] By polluting the name of the Lord; by hunting …
It is a bad state for those who would rather hear pleasing lies than unpleasing truths. The false prophetesses tried to make people feel secure, si…
