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They are all adulterers; they are as an oven heated by the baker; he ceases to stir [the fire], from the kneading of the dough, until it be leavened.
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A Heart Like a Hot Oven
Commentators explain the "heated oven" metaphor describes a heart constantly inflamed with sinful desires. This wasn't a fleeting temptation but a persistent, internal state of rebellion. The sin, both spiritual (idolatry) and physical, was not just an outward act but a burning passion that had consumed all levels of society, from the leaders to the people.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
They are all adulterers — The prophet continues to picture the corruption of all kinds and degrees of people. “All of them,” king, …
19th Century
Anglican
Render, ceases heating from the kneading of the dough until its leavening. The baker is unremitting in his exertions to keep up the heat o…
16th Century
Protestant
The Prophet pursues the same subject in this verse: he says that they were all adulterers. This similitude has already been often explained. He doe…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
They [are] all adulterers King, princes, priests, and people, both in a spiritual and corporeal sense; they were all idol…
A practical disbelief in God's government was at the bottom of all Israel's wickedness; as if God could not see it or did not heed it. Their sins a…
