Ezekiel 13:3

“Thus saith the Lord God, woe unto the foolish prophets, &c.] 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”f169; and not the Spirit of God, who leads into all truth; they pretended to a spirit of prophecy, but it was their…”

“foolish--though vaunting as though exclusively possessing "wisdom" (Co1 1:19-21); the fear of God being the only beginning of wisdom (Psa 111:10). their own spirit--instead of the Spirit of God. A threefold distinction lay between the false and the true prophets: (1) The source of their messages respectively; of the false, "their own hearts"; of the true, an object presented to the spiritual sense (named from the noblest of the senses, a seeing) by the Spirit of God as from without, not produced by their own natural powers of reflection. The word, the body of the thought, presented itself not audibly to the natural sense, but directly to the spirit of the prophet; and so the perception of it…”

“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.” return to 'Top of Page'”

“Foolish prophets - Foolish prophets are not of God's sending: for whom he sends, he either finds fit, or makes fit. Where he gives warrant, he gives wisdom. Their own spirit - Not the spirit of God. Seen nothing - God hath shewed them no vision. Ezekiel 13:4”

“Woe: Eze 13:18, Eze 34:2; Jer 23:1; Matt. 23:13-29; Luk 11:42-47, Luk 11:52; Co1 9:16 foolish: Pro 15:2, Pro 15:14; Lam 2:14; Hos 9:7; Zac 11:15; Mat 23:16-26; Luk 11:40; Ti1 6:4; Ti2 3:9 follow: Heb. walk after have seen nothing: or, things which they have not seen, Eze 13:6, Eze 13:7; Jer 23:28-32 Ezekiel 13:4”