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Religion as a License to Sin
Commentators explain that the people treated temple worship like a transaction. They would commit terrible sins, then go to the temple and say, "We are delivered." They believed the religious ceremony wiped their slate clean, not to live holy lives, but as one scholar puts it, to "start afresh with easy minds upon a new course of wickedness."
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Jeremiah
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Albert Barnes
On Jeremiah 7:10
18th Century
Theologian
We are delivered - Jeremiah accuses them of trusting in the ceremonial of the temple instead of leading holy lives. “You break,” he says, “t…
Charles Ellicott
On Jeremiah 7:10
19th Century
Bishop
(10) And come and stand. —Better, and then have you come, and stood before me.
We are delivered.<…
Charles Spurgeon
On Jeremiah 7:8–10
19th Century
Preacher
Will you quote the very decree of God as an excuse for your sin?
Will you make it out that even he is partaker in your criminality?
Tha…
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John Calvin
On Jeremiah 7:9–11
16th Century
Theologian
The meaning seems to be suspended in the first verse, when he says, Whether to steal, to kill, and to commit adultery, etc.; but there is …
John Gill
On Jeremiah 7:10
17th Century
Pastor
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Matthew Henry
On Jeremiah 7:1–16
17th Century
Minister
No observances, professions, or supposed revelations will profit, if people do not amend their ways and their actions. None can claim an interest i…