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A Transactional Faith
The commentaries unanimously identify the core sin of the false prophets as greed. Their message was entirely transactional: they preached "peace" and prosperity to those who paid them well, but declared "war" on anyone who didn't. Scholars like Calvin call this avarice the root of their evil, a warning against any ministry where financial gain, rather than God's truth, dictates the message.
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Micah
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Albert Barnes
On Micah 3:5
18th Century
Theologian
The prophets that make My people err - Flattering them in their sins and rebellions, promising that they shall go unpunished, that God is no…
Charles Ellicott
On Micah 3:5
19th Century
Bishop
That bite with their teeth. —The concluding statement that the false prophets declare war against those who do not put in…
John Calvin
On Micah 3:5
16th Century
Theologian
Micah accuses the Prophets here, in the first place, of avarice and of a desire for shameful gain. But he begins by saying that he spoke by God’s c…
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John Gill
On Micah 3:5
17th Century
Pastor
Thus says the Lord, concerning the prophets that make my
people err
The false prophet…
Matthew Henry
On Micah 3:1–8
17th Century
Minister
People cannot expect to do wrong and fare well; but should expect to find done to them what they did to others. How rarely do wholesome truths reac…