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 ]