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Haven`t you seen a false vision, and haven`t you spoken a lying divination, in that you say, Yahweh says; but I have not spoken?
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The Gravity of False Witness
Commentators stress that the primary sin of the false prophets was attaching God's holy name to their own lies. John Calvin describes this as turning light into darkness and a profound offense against God. They claimed divine authority, saying, "The Lord says it," for messages God had never spoken, a serious act of profanation.
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Ezekiel
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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 God shows why He had previously pronounced that they brought forward nothing but vanity and falsehood: specifically, because they used His nam…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Have you not seen a vain vision A vision only in pretence, and not in reality; the effect of their own fancy, and not any…
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Presbyterian
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…
