1817 Nov. 30

Not Paul

II. Doctrine

Ch. In Jesus

§.3. Practice

Irr

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.