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They have seen falsehood and lying divination, who say, Yahweh says; but Yahweh has not sent them: and they have made men to hope that the word would be confirmed.
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The Danger of a Half-Truth
Commentators like John Calvin explain that the false prophets' core error was preaching a half-truth. They offered hope and spoke of God's mercy but deliberately omitted the call to repentance. True prophets, in contrast, always join the promise of forgiveness with the necessity of turning from sin. Offering hope without repentance is a dangerous distortion that hardens hearts against God.
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Ezekiel
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18th Century
Presbyterian
And they have made others ... - Rather, “and they hope for the confirmation of their word.” They come to believe their own lies.
19th Century
Anglican
EXCURSUS D: ON CHAPTER 13:6, 7, AND 17.
In these verses a broad and crucial distinction is made between the self-imagined vi…
16th Century
Protestant
Here again he generally declares that those false prophets were vain, and this assertion depends on the principle that they had spoken from their o…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
They have seen vanity, and lying divination The visions the false prophets pretended to see were nothing but the fru…
Where God gives a warrant to do anything, he gives wisdom.
What they delivered was not what they had seen or heard, as is true of what the m…
