8Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me.
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Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city: …
The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee.
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
They have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their portions.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 4-14)The prophet here is made a type of Christ, as the prophet Isaiah sometimes was; and the scope of these verses is to show that for judgment Christ came into this world (John 9:39), for judgment to the Jewish church and nation, which were, about the time of his coming, wretchedly corrupted and degenerated by the worldliness and hypocrisy of their rulers. Christ would have healed them, but they would…
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