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Therefore don`t you pray for this people, neither lift up a cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me; for I will not hear you.
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A Point of No Return
Commentators explain that God's command to stop praying was not arbitrary. The people of Judah had reached a stage of willful, unrepentant sin, trusting in the Temple for protection while ignoring God's law. Their hearts were so hardened that judgment had become the only remaining option, a spiritual 'point of no return' where discipline was inevitable.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
They had reached that stage in which people sin without any sense of guilt (see 1 John 5:16).
Neither make intercession t…
19th Century
Anglican
Pray not thou. —The words imply that a prayer of intercession, like that which Moses had offered in ancient times ([Refer…
Baptist
You know how, through the sin of Eli's sons, God forsook Shiloh; and the tent of his house and the ark of his covenant were removed, and Shiloh bec…
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16th Century
Protestant
God, in order to exonerate his servant from every ill-will, forbids him to pray for the people. This might have been done for the sake of the Proph…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Therefore pray not thou for this people These are the words of the Lord to the Prophet Jeremiah, forbidding him to p…
No observances, professions, or supposed revelations will profit, if people do not amend their ways and their actions. None can claim an interest i…
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13th Century
Catholic
First, he presents the decree: neither take up, even when asked by them, an…
