CRITICAL NOTES.] The _third_ division now begins, after declaration of judgment and salvation which awaits the future remnant. HEAR] Plead with God in controversy. MTS.] Witness and murmur with the echo (Deuteronomy 32:1; Isaiah 1:2). CONTEND] in strife or quarrel (Judges 8:1; Isaiah 1:8. MICAH 6:2... [ Continue Reading ]
CRITICAL NOTES.] MICAH 6:3. WHAT] opens the suit. Israel, tired with the _dealings_ of God, had backslided from him. WEARIED] By demanding what is irksome (Isaiah 43:23; 1 John 5:3); or failing to perform what is promised (Jeremiah 2:31). MICAH 6:4. FOR] God had done good only, deliverance from Eg... [ Continue Reading ]
CRITICAL NOTES.] MICAH 6:9.] Israel lacks these virtues. CRIETH] Earnestly and loudly in Jerusalem. WISDOM] Wise men will hear and discover God’s authority in the message. “Thy name sees wisdom, _i.e._, has the true wisdom of life in sight” [_keil_]. Thy name looks out, the holy manifestation of th... [ Continue Reading ]
CRITICAL NOTES.] MICAH 6:10. YET] notwithstanding warnings, treasures acquired by fraud and oppression. SCANT] Lit. lean ephah, the measure forbidden (too small), not the right measure (Deuteronomy 25:16; Deuteronomy 25:16; Leviticus 19:36). ABOM.] Smitten by God (Proverbs 22:14); cursed (Numbers 2... [ Continue Reading ]
CRITICAL NOTES.] MICAH 6:13. SICK] _i.e._ I smite thee mortally (cf. for expression, Nahum 3:19; for matter, Micah 1:9). MICAH 6:14. SATIS.] Fulfilment of Leviticus 26:26. Food would not be enough, nor sustain. MIDST] Cast down in borders and in the metropolis, people will flee into the fortress, b... [ Continue Reading ]