Matthew Poole and continuators on Romans 2:22

22. Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery , doest thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, doest thou commit sacriledge ?

To this Sin also, the Iews were greatly addicted, vid. Psal. 50.18. Ier. 5.8.

Here he varies the Crime; he does not say, dost thou commit Idolatry, but Sacriledge. The Iews, after their return out of Captivity, kept themselves free from Idolatry▪ but it seems they were Guilty of a Sin that was near a Kin to it. Here it may be Queried, What the Sacriledge was, that the Iews were Guilty of? Some think, their Covetousness is here Taxed, which is a kind of Idolatry. The Iews took those things which were Consecrated to Idols, and which, by the Law of God should have been Destroy'd, and turn'd them to their private Advantage. Others think, that their Sacriledge consisted in with-holding from God, that which they should have Consecrated and Offer'd up to Him, vid. 1 Sam. 2.13. Mal. 3.8, 9. They Converted to their own Use, such things as were Dedicated to God. Much to the same purpose is their Opinion, that think it consisted in Robbing God of his Due. By the imperial Law in the Code, it is declared Sacriledge to take from the Emperor any thing that is his; it ought to be much more accounted Sacriledge to deal so with God. Some think, their Sacriledge lay in polluting the Worship of God, & making his Commands of no Effect, through their corrupt Additions and Traditions.