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The days of visitation have come. The days of reckoning have come. Israel will consider the prophet to be a fool, and the man who is inspired to be insane, because of the abundance of your sins, and because your hostility is great.
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Verse 7. Mad. Israel shall promise itself all prosperity, not being inspired by God, but full of madness. Worthington.—There were many false prophets. The true ones were often accounted idols. 4 Kennicott. 9:11. Ezekiel 3:25. Calmet.—“What is said respecting Israel, in this prophet, must be understood of heretics, who being truly mad, utter falsehoods against God. Saint Jerome—Septuagint “and Israel shall be hurt like the prophet beside himself, the man having (or hurried away by) the spirit.” Bible.
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