13. DENUNCIATION OF THE FALSE PROPHETS (EZEKIEL 13:1) AND PROPHETESSES
(EZEKIEL 13:17). Besides the delay of the doom which Ezekiel
threatened, the people were deluded by the welcome and reassuring
promises of the false prophets, of whose temper and methods this
chapter draws a very living picture.... [ Continue Reading ]
EZEKIEL 13. DENUNCIATION OF THE FALSE PROPHETS (EZEKIEL 13:1) AND
PROPHETESSES (EZEKIEL 13:17). Besides the delay of the doom which
Ezekiel threatened, the people were deluded by the welcome and
reassuring promises of the false prophets, of whose temper and methods
this chapter draws a very living p... [ Continue Reading ]
Their doom is therefore sealed. They too will be confounded in the
confusion which they have helped to create. They shall be swept off
the land of Israel, and their names shall not appear on the registry
of the citizens of the restored community, because they said It is
well, when it was anything bu... [ Continue Reading ]
THE FALSE PROPHETESSES. But women, as well as men, contributed, and
just as fatally, to the popular delusion. The false prophets were
public men, who exercised an influence on politics; the false
prophetesses corresponded roughly to our modern fortune-tellers, and
wielded an enormous private influen... [ Continue Reading ]