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How can I pardon you? your children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes` houses.
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A Case Beyond Pardon
God's opening question, "How can I pardon you?" is not a sign of indecision but a powerful rhetorical argument. Commentators explain that God is laying out an undeniable case against His people, showing that their rebellion is so blatant that even they would have to agree that judgment is the only just outcome. It reveals a God who is constrained by His own righteousness to act against unrepentant sin.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Rather, why—“for what reason”—should I pardon you?
When... – Or, “though I bound them to me by oath, yet they committed adul…
19th Century
Anglican
When I had fed them to the full. —The reading of the Hebrew text gives, though I had bound them by oath, namely, by the covenant,…
16th Century
Protestant
There is here what rhetoricians call a conference, for God seems here to seek the judgment of the adverse party, with whom He contends, on the caus…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
How shall I pardon you for this ? &c.] Because of their manifold transgressions, and multiplied backslidings; or "wherefo…
None could be found who behaved as upright and godly men. But the Lord saw the true character of the people through all their disguises.
The…
13th Century
Catholic
1. Here, he discusses their sins specifically:
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