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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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Albert Barnes
On Isaiah 5:8
18th Century
Theologian
Woe unto them... - The prophet now proceeds to specify some of the crimes to which he had referred in the parable of the v…
Charles Ellicott
On Isaiah 5:8
19th Century
Bishop
Woe unto them that join house to house. —The series of “Woes” that follows has no precedent in the teaching of earlier pr…
Charles Spurgeon
On Isaiah 5:8–10
19th Century
Preacher
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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John Calvin
On Isaiah 5:8
16th Century
Theologian
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…
John Gill
On Isaiah 5:8
17th Century
Pastor
Woe unto them that join house to house
Or "O you that join"; for, as Aben Ezra has, it signifies calling, as in ([Re…
Matthew Henry
On Isaiah 5:8–23
17th Century
Minister
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…