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Unoriginality as a Red Flag
Commentators explain that God condemns false prophets for "stealing" His words. This points to their lack of a genuine, personal message from Him. Instead of receiving a word from God, they plagiarize from one another or mimic the language of true prophets to sound authentic. As Charles Spurgeon notes, this is like preaching "borrowed sermons" that have never truly impacted the preacher's own heart.
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Jeremiah
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Albert Barnes
On Jeremiah 23:30
18th Century
Theologian
Jeremiah gives in succession the main characteristics of the teaching of the false prophets. The first is that they steal God’s words from one anot…
Charles Ellicott
On Jeremiah 23:30
19th Century
Bishop
That steal my words ... — Another note of the counterfeit prophet is found in the lack of any living personal originality…
Charles Spurgeon
On Jeremiah 23:29–30
19th Century
Preacher
Borrowed sermons – pages of other people's experience – fragments pulled from old or new divines – nothing of their own, nothing that God ever said…
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John Calvin
On Jeremiah 23:30–32
16th Century
Theologian
Jeremiah again returns to the false teachers, who were the authors of all the evils; for they fascinated the people with their flatteries, so that …
John Gill
On Jeremiah 23:30
17th Century
Pastor
Therefore, behold, I [am] against the prophets, says the
Lord
The false prophets, wit…
Matthew Henry
On Jeremiah 23:23–32
17th Century
Minister
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 …