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THE EXPOSITOR.

VOL. II.

List of Contributors to Volume II.

REV. PROF. W. F. ADENEY, M.A.
REV. W. E. BARNES, B.D.

REV. PROF. W. H. BENNETT, M.A., B.D.
REV. PRINCIPAL DAVID BROWN, D.D.

VERY REV. G. A. CHADWICK, D.D.

F. C. CONYBEARE, M.A.

REV. G. A. COOKE, M.A,

REV. T. H. DARLOW, M.A.

REV. PROF. A. B. DAVIDSON, D.D., LL.D.

SIR J. WILLIAM DAWSON, C.M.G., F.R.S.
REV. PROF. MARCUS DODS, D.D.

REV. PROF. S. R. DRIVER, D.D.

REV. ALEXANDER R. EAGAR, D.D.

REV. PRINCIPAL T. C. EDWARDS, D.D.

REV. VALPY FRENCH, D.C.L.

REV. W. C. GREEN, M.A.

PROF. J. RENDEL HARRIS, M.A.

REV. PROF. J. RAWSON LUMBY, D.D.

REV. E. MEDLEY, B.A.

REV. PROF. EBERHARD NESTLE, D.D.

PROF. W. M. RAMSAY, LL.D., D.C.L.
REV. H. R. REYNOLDS, D.D.

REV. W. D. RIDLEY, M.A.

GEORGE AUGUSTUS SIMCOX, M.A.

REV. PROF. W. F. SLATER, M.A.

REV. JAMES STALKER, D.D.

REV. JOHN WATSON, M.A.

REV. PREB. B. WHITEFOORD, M.A.

THE

EXPOSITOR.

EDITED BY THE REV.

W. ROBERTSON NICOLL, M.A., LL.D.

FIFTH SERIES.

Volume II.

London:

HODDER AND STOUGHTON,

27, PATERNOSTER ROW.

MDCCCXCV.

BUTLER & TANNER,

THE SELWOOD PRINTING WORKS,

FROME, AND LONDON.

THE FALSE PROPHETS.

THE phrase "false prophet" is not used in the Old Testament, though it is said there of certain persons that they spake "falsely," prophesied "lies," and "out of their own heart," and that the Lord had not "sent" them. Neither perhaps does the general idea of a false prophet meet us; all that is said of certain prophets is that in regard to particular issues of one sort or another in the future they spoke falsely, and that in regard to the counsels which on this or that occasion they gave the people or the prospects which they held out to them they deceived them. The view that prevailed among the people-and it seems the view of the Old Testament writers themselves-appears to have been this the prophet did not speak out of a general inspiration of Jehovah bestowed upon him once for all, as, say, at his call; each particular word that he spoke, whether a prediction or a practical counsel, was due to a special inspiration exerted on him for the occasion. And if a prophet spoke what they could not accept and believed false, they did not draw a general conclusion that he was a false prophet, they merely assumed that the Lord had not spoken by him in that particular instance. The exiles, who were doubtful whether they should go down into Egypt or remain in the land, sought the word of the Lord at the mouth of Jeremiah, and when the prophet, after some delay, was able to counsel them from the Lord to remain in the land they replied, "Thou speakest falsely: Jehovah our God hath not sent thee to say, Ye shall not go into Egypt, but Baruch the son of Neriah setteth thee on against us" (Jer. xliii. 2).

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