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But they like Adam have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
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A Transgression Like Adam's
Most commentators explain that Israel's sin is being compared to Adam's original transgression. Just as Adam willfully broke God's covenant in the paradise of Eden, Israel deliberately broke their covenant in the blessed Promised Land. This highlights that their sin was not out of necessity but was a wanton act of self-will, leading to a similar consequence: exile from God's blessing.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
But they like men - Or (as a marginal note more accurately suggests), “like Adam, have transgressed the covenant.” As Adam our first parent,…
19th Century
Anglican
Critics differ greatly on the interpretation of this verse. The marginal rendering supplies the strongest meaning. God made a covenant with Adam, a…
16th Century
Protestant
God in this place declares that He desires mercy, and not sacrifices; and He does so to prevent an objection and to anticipate all frivolous preten…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
But they, like men, have transgressed the covenant The false prophets, as Aben Ezra, whom he threatened to cut off a…
Sometimes Israel and Judah seemed disposed to repent under their sufferings, but their goodness vanished like the empty morning cloud, and the earl…
