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who think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbor, as their fathers forgot my name for Baal.
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Subtle Deception as Idolatry
Commentators explain that the false prophets' error was more insidious than the open Baal worship of their ancestors. By mixing their own dreams with claims of divine authority, they were corrupting true religion from within. The verse equates this subtle deception with outright idolatry because the end result is the same: causing God's people to forget His name.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
To his neighbor - that is, to one another, to the people about him, to anyone.
As their fathers ... - Rather, as their …
19th Century
Anglican
As their fathers have forgotten ... — The two evils of open idolatry and false claims to prophecy were, the prophet seems…
Baptist
Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my…
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16th Century
Protestant
Here God reproves the false prophets and also promises His people what was especially to be desired—that He would cleanse His Church from such poll…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Which think to cause my people to forget my name The Septuagint and Arabic versions render it, "my law". The word an…
People cannot be hidden from God's all-seeing eye. Will they never see what judgments they prepare for themselves?
Let them consider what a …
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13th Century
Catholic
Here, the prophet speaks of the other mode of deception: through dreams. Concerning this, there are three points.
He begins by pro…
