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Prophets

3. Next comes a passage in Jeremiah xxiii. 14.

‘I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they committ adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evil doers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them to me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.’

Dishonesty seems in this passage to have been the principal imputation meant to be conveyed.

Here we see prophet Jeremiah pouring down as usual upon the heads of rivals /rival prophets/ as well as enemies at large a torrent of vague vituperation: they on their part we may well believe were not behind hand with him. But happily their prophecies have perished with them, and his [...?] and the storehouse of religion is encumbered with his.
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    2. Isaiah in the passage iii. 9.

    3. Soon after Ch. iii. comes another passage in which in the character of a proverbial expression, Sodom is brought in: brought in but how? /in what character?/ not in the character of a place specially notorious /remarked/ for the prevalence of the particular propensity, but in that of a place, which for depravity in all shapes taken together was commonly regarded as having been subjected by supernatural means to the calamity of fire in the character of a punishment inflicted by a particular providence. Isaiah iii. 9. ‘The shew of their countenance (that of the people of Judah in general and Jerusalem in particular) doth witness against them, and they declare their sin as Sodom, ;they hide it [not]: wo unto their soul, for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.’

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    7. Seventhly and lastly comes /behold/ Zephaniah, Ch. ii. v. 8. 9.

    ‘I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and magnified {themselves} against their border.

    9. ‘Therefore as I live, saith the Lord of hosts and God of Israel, surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, {even} the breeding of nettles, and salt-pits, and a perpetual desolation, the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.’

    10. ‘This they shall have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified {themselves} against the people of the Lord of hosts.’

    11. ‘The Lord {will be} terrible unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth, and {men} shall worship him every one from his place, {even} all the isles of the heathen.’

    12 ‘Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by the sword.’

    13. ‘And he will stretch out his hand against the north and destroy Assyria, and will make Ninevah a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.’—Thereupon follows the picture of the wilderness in detail.

    In all the other /preceding/ passages the subject /object/ of the prophets’ vituperation is his own country: in this last the neighbouring countries come in for their /a/ share in it.