the Week of Proper 6 / Ordinary 11
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Hesekiel 13:3
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So spricht Gott, der Herr : Wehe den törichten Propheten, die ihrem eigenen Geiste folgen und dem, was sie nicht gesehen haben!
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Woe: Ezekiel 13:18, Ezekiel 34:2, Jeremiah 23:1, Matthew 23:13-29, Luke 11:42-47, Luke 11:52, 1 Corinthians 9:16
foolish: Proverbs 15:2, Proverbs 15:14, Lamentations 2:14, Hosea 9:7, Zechariah 11:15, Matthew 23:16-26, Luke 11:40, 1 Timothy 6:4, 2 Timothy 3:9
follow: Heb. walk after
have seen nothing: or, things which they have not seen, Ezekiel 13:6, Ezekiel 13:7, Jeremiah 23:28-32
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 13:1 - a prophet 2 Chronicles 18:5 - Go up Jeremiah 23:16 - a vision Jeremiah 28:15 - The Lord Ezekiel 13:2 - prophesy out of Ezekiel 16:23 - woe Micah 2:11 - a man Zephaniah 3:4 - light Zechariah 11:17 - Woe Colossians 2:18 - intruding 2 Peter 2:1 - there were
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Thus saith the Lord God, woe unto the foolish prophets,.... The false prophets, as the Targum; who are foolish, as all are who are not sent of God, and furnished by him with wisdom and knowledge, and who prophesy out of their own hearts; for what else but folly can proceed from thence? this must be a great mortification to these prophets to be called foolish, when they reckoned themselves wise men, being vainly puffed up in their fleshly minds, and were accounted so by others; but what is wisdom with men is foolishness with God:
that follow their own spirit; or "walk after it" c; and not the Spirit of God, who leads into all truth; they pretended to a spirit of prophecy, but it was their own spirit and the dictates of it they followed, and not the Spirit of the Lord; and therefore it is no wonder that they prophesied false things, and led the people wrong; as all such teachers do, who give way to their own fancies and imaginations, and forsake the word of God, and do not implore the assistance and teachings of the blessed Spirit:
and have seen nothing; no vision, as the Syriac version renders it; they pretended to have revelations of things future from the Lord, but they had none; what they saw were vain visions and lying divinations, and were as nothing, and worse than nothing; yea, they said what they never saw.
c הלכים אחר רוחם "qui ambulant post spiritm suum": Pagninus, Calvin, Cocceius, Starckius.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
That follow ... nothing - Better in the margin. A true prophet (like Ezekiel) spoke “the word of the Lord,” and declared what he had seen “in the visions of God.” These pretenders are stigmatized in scorn “prophets out of their own hearts,” “seers of what they have not seen.”
