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and you have done evil more than your fathers; for, behold, you walk every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you don`t listen to me:
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Stubbornness, Not Ignorance
Commentators agree that the core issue wasn't just committing evil acts, but a deep-seated "stubbornness of his evil heart." The original Hebrew word, often translated as "imagination," points to a willful, obstinate refusal to listen to God. Their sin was a conscious choice to follow their own desires rather than God's commands.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Imaginations - Understand as stubbornness.
19th Century
Anglican
Imagination. —Better, as before, stubbornness.
16th Century
Protestant
He shows here what we have seen elsewhere—that the people flattered themselves in their vices, so that they could not be turned by any admonitions,…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And you have done worse than your fathers Not only committed the same sins, but greater, or, however, attended with more …
This seems to be the language of those who dispute the word of God and, instead of humbling and condemning themselves, justify themselves, as if Go…
13th Century
Catholic
Here, he gives the cause of the previously mentioned punishment.
First, he poses the question: why has the LORD spoken all this great…
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