_Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel _ CIVIL RULERS I. What civil rulers ought always to be. They ought always to “know judgment,” that is, always practically to know the right. What is the standard of right? Not public sentiment, not human law, but the Divine... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that make My people err _ FALSE PROPHETS Here the prophet attacks the false prophets, as before he had attacked the “princes. ” I. They are DECEIVING. God says, they “make My people err” Preachers often make their hearers err. (1) In theology. They p... [ Continue Reading ]
_But truly I am full of power by the Spirit of the Lord, and of Judgment, and of might _ THE PROPHETIC ENDOWMENT The three gifts, power, judgment, might, are the fruits of the one Spirit of God, through whom the prophet was filled with them. Of these, power is always strength residing in the perso... [ Continue Reading ]
_Hear this. .. ye heads of the house of Jacob. .. that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity _ RECTITUDE I. There is an eternal law of “right” that should govern man in all his relations. Right, as a sentiment, is one of the deepest, most ineradicable and operative sentiments in humanity. All men... [ Continue Reading ]