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Pride: The Root of Deafness
Commentators identify pride as the core reason Judah refuses to listen. John Calvin calls it the "source of evil," while Charles Ellicott refers to it as their "besetting sin." This pride made them feel they were above God's instruction, causing them to despise the prophet's message and resist God Himself.
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Jeremiah
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Albert Barnes
On Jeremiah 13:15
18th Century
Theologian
Be not proud - Both the symbols were of a nature very humiliating to the national self-respect.
Charles Ellicott
On Jeremiah 13:15
19th Century
Bishop
Be not proud.—With special reference to the besetting sin of Judah, as described in Jeremiah 13:9; perhaps also to the ch…
John Calvin
On Jeremiah 13:15–16
16th Century
Theologian
The Prophet shows here more fully what we have stated—that the temperament of those with whom he had to deal was so refractory that it was necessar…
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John Gill
On Jeremiah 13:15
17th Century
Pastor
Hear you, and give ear
Both to what goes before, and what follows after.
The words doubled denote the closest…
Matthew Henry
On Jeremiah 13:12–17
17th Century
Minister
As the bottle was fitted to hold the wine, so the people's sins made them vessels of wrath, fitted for God's judgments, with which they would be fi…