Micah 7:1-6 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Bible Study & Commentary

Verses 1-6

Micah 7:1-Joshua : . Contemporary Violence, Corruption, and Disloyalty.— This passage is distinct from the preceding, though the same introductory remark applies to it; in tone, however, it seems to come nearer to certain Psalms ( cf. Psalms 12:1 f.). Zion laments that the pious and upright man has become, through violence, as rare in her midst as the fruit in the garden or vineyard after the ingathering; men plot against their fellows as the huntsman against his prey ( Psalms 10:8 f.).

Micah 7:3 is corrupt; the general meaning appears to be that the powerful secure their interests through the bribery of dishonest judges, but the Hebrew of the first and last clauses cannot be translated. In Micah 7:4 (where the impossible worse than supplied by RV should be “ like” ) these evil men are compared with thorns, both for their harmfulness and their destiny ( 2 Samuel 23:6); the “ Day of Yahweh” ( Amos 5:18, etc.), foretold by His watchmen-prophets ( Isaiah 21:6, Jeremiah 6:17, Habakkuk 2:1) will bring confusion upon them (text uncertain). So evil are the present times that the closest ties of intimacy and affection are unreliable ( Micah 7:5 mg.); the natural authority of parents over their children ( Exodus 20:12; Exodus 21:15; Exodus 21:17, Deuteronomy 21:18 ff.) is disregarded, and the unity of the household ( Genesis 17:27) is lost.

Micah 7:1 . Cf. Isaiah 24:13; for the first ripe fig as a delicacy, see Isaiah 28:4; read the clause as mg., but soul means “ appetite” .

Micah 7:2 . earth should be “ land” .

Micah 7:6 . Note the different application of the words in Matthew 10:35 f.

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Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Arthur Samuel Peake (1865-1929) was an English biblical scholar, born at Leek, Staffordshire, and educated at St John's College, Oxford. He was the first holder of the Rylands Chair of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis in the University of Manchester, from its establishment as an independent institution in 1904. He was thus the first non-Anglican to become a professor of divinity in an English university.In 1890-92 he was a lecturer at Mansfield College, Oxford, and from 1890 to 1897 held a fellowship at Merton College.In 1892, however, he was invited to become tutor at the Primitive Methodist Theological Institute in Manchester, which was renamed Hartley College in 1906. He was largely responsible for broadening the curriculum which intending Primitive Methodist ministers were required to follow, and for raising the standards of the training.In 1895-1912 he served as lecturer in the Lancashire Independent College, from 1904 to 1912 also in the United Methodist College at Manchester. In 1904 he was appointed Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis in the (Victoria) University of Manchester. (This chair was in the Faculty of Theology established in that year; it was renamed "Rylands Professor, etc." in 1909.)Peake was also active as a layman in wider Methodist circles, and did a great deal to further the reunion of Methodism which took effect in 1932, three years after his death. In the wider ecumenical sphere Peake worked for the National Council of Evangelical Free Churches, serving as president in 1928, and was a member of the World Conference on Faith and Order held in Lausanne in 1927. He published and lectured extensively, but is best remembered for his one-volume commentary on the Bible (1919), which, in its revised form, is still in use.The University of Aberdeen made him an honorary D. D. in 1907. He was a governor of the John Rylands Library.... Show more

First published in 1919, Peake's commentary of the bible was a one-volume commentary that gave special attention to Biblical archaeology and the then-recent discoveries of biblical manuscripts. Biblical quotations in this edition were from the Revised Version of the Bible.... Show more

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