Homilist Judges 17:1-13 And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah.… I. THE GREAT RELIGIOUS WANT OF HUMANITY. 1. A friendly relation with the Eternal. 2. Some mediator to procure this friendship. II. THE GREAT RELIGIOUS MISTAKE OF HUMANITY. This man concludes that he shall obtain the Divine favour simply because he has a priest in his house. He may have drawn this false and dangerous conclusion from one of the following popular assumptions: 1. That there was something morally meritorious in merely supporting a minister of the Lord. 2. That the priest would have some special power with Heaven to obtain "good." 3. That by his formally attending to the religious ordinances which this Levite prescribed "the Lord would do him good." (Homilist.) Parallel Verses KJV: And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah.WEB: There was a man of the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah. |
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