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Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, until there be no room, and you be made to dwell alone in the midst of the land!
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The Sin of Insatiable Greed
Commentators clarify that the sin condemned here is not the simple act of owning property, but an insatiable greed. It's a mindset that is never satisfied and seeks to possess everything, displacing others until one is "alone in the land." As John Calvin notes, this is a madness where the greedy, if they could, would "willingly take the sun from the poor."
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Woe unto them... - The prophet now proceeds to specify some of the crimes to which he had referred in the parable of the v…
19th Century
Anglican
Woe unto them that join house to house. —The series of “Woes” that follows has no precedent in the teaching of earlier pr…
Baptist
In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant. Yea, ten acres of viney…
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16th Century
Protestant
Woe to them that join house to house and field to field. He now rebukes their insatiable avarice and covetousness, from which acts of chea…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Woe unto them that join house to house Or "O you that join"; for, as Aben Ezra has, it signifies calling, as in ([Re…
Here is a woe to those who set their hearts on the wealth of the world. It is not that it is sinful for those who have a house and a field to purch…
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13th Century
Catholic
I will sing to my beloved. Here the prophet denounces the third sin of the two tribes—their abuse of things—using a metaphor. Th…
