John Gill's Exposition on Psalms 78:29

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions, etc.] Sin is an invention of man’s: when our first parents sinned, they found out many inventions; and their posterity ever since have been inventors of evil things; and man’s invention is very quick at that work. All false doctrine and false worship are of men’s finding out; all idolatrous practices are their inventions, and which are here intended; (see <19A639>Psalm 106:39). And these are very provoking to God, who is jealous of his glory, and which is taken from him hereby; and even when he forgives such sins of men, he takes vengeance on their inventions, as in this case, (<199908>Psalm 99:8). For it follows: and the plague brake in upon them: like an inundation of water, and carried off four and twenty thousand persons, (<042509>Numbers 25:9).

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