John Trapp on Micah 6:10
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Micah6:10
Verſ. 10. Are there yet the treaſures of wickedneſſe] What yet? for all that ever I can ſay or do to the contrary? Though I cry out unto you by my word (and have ſet it on with my rod, that it might ſtick the better) Oh do not this abominable thing! Is there yet unto every man an houſe of the wicked, and treaſures of wickedneſſe? (ſo ſome read it) ſee chap. 2.2. with the Note. The Vulgar reads it, (and Gualther diſliketh it not) Is there yet fire in the houſe of the wicked? ſc. the fire of Gods wrath? and treaſures of wickedneſſe, as fuell caſt upon it, to conſume all? See Jam. 5.1, 2, 3. Treaſures of wickedneſſe profit not, Prov. 10.2. ſith to heap up ſinne, is to heap up wrath, Rom. 2. and to rake together ill-gotten goods, is to carry home a fardle of plaguy-clothes, and death with them. Ephraim ſaid yet I am become rich, I have found me out ſubſtance Hoſ. 12.8. But in ſo doing, Ephraim fed upon the wind ver. 1. yea upon peſtilentiall ayre: he daily increaſed lies and deſolation, that is, ſuch lying vanities as bring deſolation, and not conſolation:Deſolationem potius quam conſolationem. Aug. Epiſt. 121. ad Probam. as hale hell at the heeles of them, (as we ſee in the parable of that wretched rich man Luk. 16.) Animam ipſam incendio gehennae mancipant, the fire that is in them ſhall feed upon their ſoules, and fleſh thoroughout all eternity. Out of dores therefore with theſe treaſures of wickedneſſe, by reſtoring them to the right owners, as Zacheus did; and as Juſtinian the Emperour, who would not put the veſſels of the Temple taken by Titus, and recovered from Genſericus, into the treaſury, but reſtored them.
and the ſcant meaſure that is abominable?] Heb: the Ephah of leaxeneſſe, (ſo called,Modius macilentus. both becauſe it wante of its due proportion, and makes men leane) full of wrath: q. d. you ſcant it to thoſe you trade with, but God fills it up with his fierce wrath and indignation. See Am. 8.5. with the Note.
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