Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you… Here made responsible for the ignorance of the people. 1. As ignorance is a very rife and destroying sin in the visible Church, so the guilt thereof doth ofttimes lie in great part at preachers' doors. 2. Such as would be able to teach others, ought to take much pains that they may be instructed themselves from God in His Word. 3. The more familiar occasion of converse men have with holy things, wanting holiness, their contempt and dislike of them will be the greater, and their opposition to light have the more perversity and the less infirmity in it. 4. Such as do for a time reject and resist means of knowledge, may at last come to lose the light they had. 5. The more relation any pretend to God, by virtue of their general or particular calling, the Lord will make use thereof to aggravate their sin and unanswerable walking. 6. Unfaithfulness in offices will cast men out of the Church, as unsavoury salt is cast out, which is a sad judgment. 7. It is a righteous judgment on unfaithful ministers that God suffers their posterity to be neglected. (George Hutcheson.) Parallel Verses KJV: My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. |
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