2 Chronicles 28:10 And now you purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Jerusalem for slaves and bondwomen to you: but are there not with you… An object may be placed in such close proximity to the eye as to escape all distinct perception. It may be brought into such near contact with the organs of vision as to become wholly invisible. Analogous to this natural difficulty of a close self-inspection is the general inability or indisposition of men to form a correct estimate of their own moral and spiritual character. Consider — I. SOME OF OUR DISTINGUISHING PRIVILEGES AND ADVANTAGES. II. THE SOLEMN AND AWFUL QUESTION, AS IT RELATES — 1. To public, national, legalised transgressions. (1) Want of deference to God's supreme authority. (2) Sabbath profanation, its diversion from its appropriate objects upon a gigantic scale, as exemplified on our railways, in our public-houses, and in various departments of industrial occupation. 2. To social and individual sins. (1) Drunkenness. (2) Impurity. (3) Blasphemy and profaneness. (4) Covetousness, intense and unscrupulous competition of interests. (5) Vague scepticism and decided infidelity. (J. Davies, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: And now ye purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Jerusalem for bondmen and bondwomen unto you: but are there not with you, even with you, sins against the LORD your God? |
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