* I gave.
The simple meaning of this place is, that when the Israelites
had rebelled against God, despised his statutes, and polluted
his sabbaths, in effect cast him off, and given themselves up
wholly to their idols, then He, in a just judgment for their
disobedience, abandoned them, "gave them up to a reprobate
mind," (Ro 1:28,) and suffered them to walk after the
idolatrous, cruel, and impious customs and ordinances of the
heathen; by which they were ripened for the destruction which
he intended to bring upon them, that they might learn to know
God by his judgments, seeing they had despised his mercies.
In the same sense God is said judicially to "send a strong
delusion, that they should believe a lie," to those who
"received not the love of the truth, but had pleasure in
unrighteousness."
26,39 14:9-11 De 4:27,28 28:36 Ps 81:12 Isa 66:4 Ro 1:21-28
2Th 2:9-11
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