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Behold, I am against the prophets, says Yahweh, who use their tongues, and say, He says.
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The false prophets' core sin was speaking on their own initiative. Commentators explain that to "use their tongues" means they relied on their own human ability, not divine inspiration. They then attached God's authoritative seal, "He saith," to their own ideas, fraudulently claiming a message from the Lord when they had received none.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
That use their tongues - literally, that take their tongues. Their second characteristic. They have no message from God, but they take their…
19th Century
Anglican
That use their tongues, and say, He saith.— Literally, that take their tongues. There is no adequate evidence fo…
Baptist
They have no hearts; they only use their tongues. They say, "He says," as if God had said to them something which he has never said.
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16th Century
Protestant
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 …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Behold, I [am] against the prophets, says the Lord
Not another sort of prophets distinct from the former, or those…
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, he recalls the three methods of deception.
