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Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?
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Sin as a Corporate Trespass
Nehemiah's rhetorical question, "Shall we then hearken unto you...?", frames the issue as a community-wide problem, not just an individual one. Commentators explain that to tolerate the sin of marrying foreign women was to "connive at it" and become complicit in the "great evil." This highlights the principle of corporate responsibility in upholding God's commands.
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19th Century
Anglican
The mixed marriages again.
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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Presbyterian
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