PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
The Pulpit Commentary — Zephaniah
William J. Deane [1853-1943] · 65,377 words · 74 reading sections
The Pulpit Commentary — Zephaniah — Section 61
the return from the Ce.ptivity in Babylon; the faithful prophets raised up to declare the jndgments of Heaven against idolatrous nations; Luther, Mclancthon, Zwinglc, called by him to take part in the work of the Reformation; and Owen, Howe, Bunyan, Baxter, Flavel, and others, following, to wield the pen effectively in…
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HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. Vera. 1-8.-Jerusalem the '1'8bellious and polluted; or, the wi,,;kednas and woe of a degenerate city. I. THE NUMBER AND VARIETY OF HEB. SINS. 1. Rebellion. This, mark- ing her attitude towards God, is amplified and detailed. as consisting in four transgres- sions. (1) Disobedience. She had…
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which could not. leave a bone of their prey till tht'l morning, but must devour it ere the night passed (Hab. i. 8; Jor. v. 6; Ezek. xxii. 27). II. 'fHE AGGR~VATION AND HEINOUSNESS OF HER BINS. 1. Against Divine grace. She had been gmlty of all the foregoing wickednessos, though Jehovah bad been in the midst of her. T…
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RESTORATION OF lsnAEL. (Ver. 8.) 1. The time indicated. The day that ,Jehovah risoth up to the prey; i.o. to take for himself as a booty or spoil out of the nations he visits a people who shall desire his salvation and confess his Name. Among those who ehoJI then he captured by Jehovah will be IRrael, or at least a rem…
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character (Exod. iii. 15; xx. 24; niii. 21; John xvii, 6); to call upon his Name, to invoke the help that Name proffers and warrants to expect. (4) 'l.'he animating Spirit. " To serve him with one consent," or" one shoulder;" signifying that their adherence to Jehovah shall not be purely forme.l but essentially spiritu…
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ness (Matt. v. 6), those who seek his face and call upon his Na.me (Rom. x. 12), and those who ore possessed of e. spirit of peace (Matt. v. 9). 2. The enthusiasm with which she is invited to refoice. Suggested by the threefold call to sing, shout, and bo glad. "Bing,-it is the inarticulate, thrilling, trembling eur…
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Vers. 18-20.-Tlie tw-ning again of 1s1'aers captivity; or, good news for sin's exiles. I. LIBERTY FOR THE CAPTIVES. "I will deal with all them that afflict tboo," etc. Those members of the Isra.elitish community who were soon to be carried off into exile and enslaved in a foreign land were to be eventually (in the d…
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idols that oould not eave to that of the living and true God. So it is in the very iri.milar prophecy given here. It is not certain whether ver. 8 is to be understood as a warning given in solemn irony to the ungodly Jews, or an encouragement addressed to the faithful remnant among them; and so the precise connection o…
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loving call, "H any man thirst, let him oome unto rue, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the Scripture bath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. And this spah he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive" (John vii. 37-39). When we seek to determine in theory the exact re…
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ever go bond-in-hand with nationol exclusiveness and mntual hostility. Each people is supposed to have ite owu patron gode, each land its own local deities, and the servant of one god naturo.lly becomes lhe enemy of the people of another. Religion, in this corrupt form, tends to separate men, and set one against ano…
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as having fallen. How many modem citi~s to-day, which call themselves Christian have 8unk into e. similar degeneracy I London, Paris, Rome, St. Peterslmrg, etc., e.r~ nil highly religioUB in profession, n.nd have religious means in abundance. What is the, moral condition, not only of their masses, but of their "prin…
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Vers. 6-8.-Terri"ble calamities in hwman history. "I have cut off the nations: their towers a.re desolate ; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by : their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant. I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive instruction," etc. In …
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observances; but unity of object, the same God in the same spit-it-reverence, gratitude, adoration. CoNOLUSION. What a glorious future awaits the world I All men morally pure in speech, all men heartily one in worship. Thrice hail the day 1-D. 'l'. Yers. 11-13.-A sketcJi, of a morallyregenei·ated cuy. 'Hn that day sh…
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Vere. 18-20.-The moral restoration of manlcind. "I will gather them that ar sorrowful for the solemn assembly, who are of thee, to whom the reproach of it wa a burden. Behold, at that time 1 will undo all that afflict thee," etc. "The ~lvatiou held up in prospect before the remnant of Israel, which has been refined by …
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