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Zephaniah 3:4

The Pulpit Commentary on Zephaniah 3:4

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Her prophets. These are the false prophets, who have no true mission from God (comp. ; ). Light; either, frivolous or empty boasters. The word means properly, "boiling over," like water.

Vulgate, vesani; Septuagint, πνευματοφόροι, which means, probably, not "inspired by an (evil) spirit," but "carried away by the wind," "light" (comp. ). Treacherous persons; literally, men of treacheries, who uttered their own fancies as if they were commissioned by God, and so really opposed him whom they professed to represent ().

Her priests have polluted the sanctuary (what is holy). Not the temple only, but all that has to do with God's service, worship, rites, sacrifices; they make no distinction between what is sacred and what is profane ().

They have done violence to the Law. Chiefly, doubtless, by distorting its meaning, and neither observing it themselves nor teaching others to keep it.

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