40–41. Therefore was the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance. Not that even then he broke his covenant or utterly cast off his
offending people, but he felt the deepest indignation, and even looked upon
them with abhorrence. How far the divine wrath can burn against those whom he
yet loves in his heart it is hard to say, but certainly Israel pushed the
experiment to the extreme. And he gave them into the hand of the heathen.
This was the manifestation of his abhorrence. He gave them a taste of the
result of sin; they spared the heathen, mixed with them and imitated them, and
soon they had to smart from them, for hordes of invaders were let loose upon
them to spoil them at their pleasure. People make rods for their own backs. And they that hated them ruled over them. And who could wonder? Sin never
creates true love. They joined the heathen in their wickedness, and they did
not win their hearts, but rather provoked their contempt. If we mix with people
of the world they will soon become our masters and our tyrants, and we cannot
want worse.
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