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     * I gave.
       The simple meaning of this place is, that when the Israelites
       had rebelled against God, despised his statutes, and polluted
       his sabbaths, in effect cast him off, and given themselves up
       wholly to their idols, then He, in a just judgment for their
       disobedience, abandoned them, "gave them up to a reprobate
       mind," (Ro 1:28,) and suffered them to walk after the
       idolatrous, cruel, and impious customs and ordinances of the
       heathen; by which they were ripened for the destruction which
       he intended to bring upon them, that they might learn to know
       God by his judgments, seeing they had despised his mercies.
       In the same sense God is said judicially to "send a strong
       delusion, that they should believe a lie," to those who
       "received not the love of the truth, but had pleasure in
       unrighteousness."

     # 26,39; 14:9-11; De 4:27,28; 28:36; Ps 81:12; Isa 66:4; Ro 1:21-28|
     # 2Th 2:9-11|