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x.xxviii.vi-p32.9

x.xxviii.vi-p32.962 words

11. broken in judgment—namely, the "judgment" of God on him (Ho 5:1).

walked after the commandment—Jeroboam's, to worship the calves (2Ki 10:28-33). Compare Mic 6:16, "the statutes of Omri," namely, idolatrous statutes. We ought to obey God rather than men (Ac 5:29). Jerome reads "filthiness." The Septuagint gives the sense, not the literal translation: "after vanities."