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shall we again break your commandments, and join in affinity with the peoples that do these abominations? would not you be angry with us until you had consumed us, so that there should be no remnant, nor any to escape?
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Grace Is Not a License to Sin
Ezra's rhetorical question highlights the severe danger of taking God's mercy for granted. Commentators explain that returning to the very sins that brought judgment, especially after experiencing deliverance, is a 'surer presage of ruin.' The prayer acknowledges that God would be completely just to consume them if they repeated their offense.
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Ezra
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19th Century
Anglican
Ezra’s prayer of confession and deprecation.
(Ezra 9:5) And at the evening sacrifice I arose up.—Until the afternoon Ez…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Should we again break your commandments, and join in affinity with the people of these abominations…
Presbyterian
The sacrifice, especially the evening sacrifice, was a type of the blessed Lamb of God, who in the evening of the world, was to take away sin by th…
