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Hear you, and give ear; don`t be proud; for Yahweh has spoken.
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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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18th Century
Presbyterian
Be not proud - Both the symbols were of a nature very humiliating to the national self-respect.
19th Century
Anglican
Be not proud.—With special reference to the besetting sin of Judah, as described in Jeremiah 13:9; perhaps also to the ch…
16th Century
Protestant
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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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Hear you, and give ear Both to what goes before, and what follows after.
The words doubled denote the closest…
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…
13th Century
Catholic
Here, he gives the application of the allegory, and on this topic, he makes two points.
First, he applies the allegory to the puni…
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