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John Gill's Exposition on Isaiah 65:3
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face, &c.] They committed their sins openly, without any fear of the divine Being, and in defiance of him, not at all awed by his omniscience and omnipresence; they committed them in the open streets, and even in the temple, the place of the divine residence; and these they did constantly, which provoked him to anger and wrath against them; particularly the following sins: that sacrificeth in gardens; to idols, as the Targum, placed there, as they were under every green tree; or in groves, where idols were worshipped. Fortunatus Scacchusf1266 thinks this refers to their having their sepulchres in their gardens, where they consulted the dead; which is favoured by a clause in the next verse: and burneth incense on altars of brick: or, “upon bricks”f1267. Kimchi says, when they made bricks, they put upon them incense for idols; or, “upon tiles”; upon the roofs of their houses, which were covered with tiles; (see <241913> Jeremiah 19:13) when incense should only have been burnt upon the golden altar erected for that purpose, (<023001>Exodus 30:1,3), not that these idolatrous actions were committed by the Jews in the times of Christ and his apostles, the times preceding their last destruction; for, after their return front the Babylonish captivity, they were not guilty of idolatry; but these were the sins of their fathers, which God would recompense into their bosoms, according to (<236507>Isaiah 65:7) they now filling up the measure of their iniquities, (<402332>Matthew 23:32).
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