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Her priests; God owns them not as his, they were priests that suited such a people.
Priests; men by office bound to reverence the law, to study it, and to preserve it from men’s corruptions.
Violated my law; wrested it to oppression and impiety, and to maintain errors, and made it speak what they would, not what it did.
Profaned; lightly esteemed, as if they had been but common things, and accordingly use them.
My holy things; sacrifices and oblations, which were consecrated to holy uses, should be offered with holy hearts and hands, and be eaten by holy persons in due time and place. All this neglected with profane spirits.
They have put no difference between the holy and profane: this and the following clause may be an exegesis, explication of the former, or else thus; Neither have they in their own practice differenced holy, and profane, nor in their teaching acquainted the people with the difference, nor in the exercise of their authority separated the profane from the holy, either persons or things, but with promiscuous intermixtures of every thing, and all persons have been alike to them, whether holy or profane, i.e. of common and ordinary use.
Neither have they showed difference; have not made the people know, so the word.
Between the unclean and the clean; things and persons, what things might be touched or eaten, or what might not, what persons might not be approached to and conversed with, and what might; all which was the duty of the priests, the neglect whereof spread the uncleanness of the Jews over the whole land.
Hid their eyes; despised, and would not see the holiness of the sabbaths, nor would look on such as observed them aright to encourage them, or on those that profaned them to reprove them; so they did not see what they would not see.
From my sabbaths; though they are expressly commanded to be kept holy, and with great care and exactness, Isa_58:13 Jer_17:21,22; though the portion of time I consecrated to my service, they sacrilegiously direct to other uses, and grudge it me, nay, rob me of it.
I am profaned; contemned, dishonoured, disobeyed, and all my laws represented as trivial and light things.