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He said, This is Wickedness: and he cast her down into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead on the mouth of it.
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Sin Personified
The angel explicitly identifies the woman in the basket as the personification of "Wickedness." Commentators explain this is a powerful image showing sin not just as individual acts, but as a singular, corrupting force that God must confront and remove from His people.
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Zechariah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
And cast her into the midst of the Ephah - The measure, then, was not yet full. Ribera states: “She had the lower part within the E…
19th Century
Anglican
Talent. —Better, disc. The construction of these verses is rather difficult.
They should be taken as the words of …
16th Century
Protestant
Here I stop; I intended to add all the verses, but I can hardly finish the whole today. It will be enough for us to understand that this is the sec…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And he said, This [is] wickedness A representation of wicked men, who are wickedness itself, as their inward part is, ([R…
In this vision, the prophet sees an ephah, something in the shape of a grain measure. This signified the Jewish nation. They are filling the measur…
