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Deceit Destroys Faith
Commentators explain that the people's refusal to know God was a direct result of their deceitful lives. A culture of dishonesty towards one another made a genuine relationship with the God of truth impossible. As one scholar notes, this reflects the New Testament principle that you cannot love God whom you haven't seen if you don't love the brother you have seen.
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Jeremiah
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Albert Barnes
On Jeremiah 9:2–9
18th Century
Theologian
From their punishment the prophet now turns to their sins.
(Jeremiah 9:2) The prophet utters the wish that he might be spared hi…
Charles Ellicott
On Jeremiah 9:6
19th Century
Bishop
Your habitation ... —The words may be an individualized, and therefore more emphatic, reproduction of the general warning of Jerem…
Charles Spurgeon
On Jeremiah 9:6
19th Century
Preacher
Putting forth all their critical ingenuity to get rid of God, His Word, inspiration, and the divine sacrifice, doing all they could so that they mi…
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John Calvin
On Jeremiah 9:6
16th Century
Theologian
The Prophet here introduces God as the speaker, so that the Jews might know that they were not dealing with a mortal man. For they might, according…
John Gill
On Jeremiah 9:6
17th Century
Pastor
Your habitation is in the midst of deceit
In the midst of a people of deceit, as Kimchi and Ben Molech. These are th…
Matthew Henry
On Jeremiah 9:1–11
17th Century
Minister
Jeremiah wept much, yet wished he could weep more, that he might rouse the people to a due sense of the hand of God. But even the desert, without c…