Micah 3 - Introduction
_THE CRUELTY OF THE PRINCES. THE FALSEHOOD OF THE PROPHETS. THE SECURITY OF THEM BOTH._ _Before Christ 710._... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE CRUELTY OF THE PRINCES. THE FALSEHOOD OF THE PROPHETS. THE SECURITY OF THEM BOTH._ _Before Christ 710._... [ Continue Reading ]
AND FLAY THEIR SKIN FROM OFF THEM— _Who, when ye have flayed the skin from off them, and broken their bones, then throw their flesh as into a pot,_ or _cauldron._ These are hyperbolical expressions, to set forth the covetousness and cruelty of the princes of Israel, who, like unnatural shepherds, ac... [ Continue Reading ]
AND CRY, PEACE— "Who speak nothing but agreeable and friendly things, so long as any thing is given them to satisfy their covetousness; but who proclaim war, and become bitter enemies to those that do not put into their mouths what they demand." See Calmet. Instead of _prepare war,_ we may read _pro... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE SUN SHALL GO DOWN, &C.— "You shall be in confusion, and in grief, despised and ill-treated; not able to open your mouth, when the people carried with you into captivity shall accuse you of the false and delusive counsels which you would have passed upon them as the oracles of God. Overtaken... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT TRULY I AM FULL OF POWER, &C.— "I speak with courage, fully assured that it is the spirit of God which animates me; and, in consequence hereof, I have the honesty and courage to reprove the crying sins of the nations, though practised and encouraged by the greatest of men; contrary to the base s... [ Continue Reading ]
THEREFORE SHALL ZION—BE PLOWED AS A FIELD— There is nothing that hinders us from referring this prophesy to the first destruction of Jerusalem; for, though the foundations of the walls were left, yet a great number of houses within the city were overturned, as well by the Chaldeans as by the Jews th... [ Continue Reading ]