Matthew Poole and continuators on Zephaniah 3:4

4 Her prophets are light and treacherous persons : her priests have polluted the sanctuary ; they have done violence to the law.

By education, profession and unwarranted practice called so, false Prophets such Z[illegible: 1 letter]dekiah, and probably [illegible: 1 word], Sec. were,

Unstable and inconstant, ready to comply with humors which they should have reproved▪ 1 Kings 22.13.

Men of treacheries, what ever pleasing temper they seem to [illegible: 1 letter]e of, yet still they design treachery, the H[illegible: 1 letter]b, seems to ran it higher, treacheries in the abstract.

Of the house of L[illegible: 1 letter]vi, of the stock of A[illegible: 1 letter]ron.

Bound by office to keep holy the Sanctuary have defiled it, and all that is Holy.

Wresting it by perverse interpretation to what sense best serveth a corrupt mind.

Marginal references: J[illegible: 1 letter]r 23 11, 32. Ho[illegible: 1 letter]. 9.7.; Ezek. 22.26.