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<div2 id="Obad.i" n="i" next="Obad.ii" prev="Obad" progress="84.26%" title="Introduction">
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<h2 id="Obad.i-p0.1">Obadiah</h2>
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<pb id="Obad.i-Page_1270" n="1270"/>
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<div class="Center" id="Obad.i-p0.3">
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<p id="Obad.i-p1" shownumber="no"><b>AN</b></p>
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<h3 id="Obad.i-p1.1">EXPOSITION,</h3>
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<h4 id="Obad.i-p1.2">W I T H P R A C T I C A L O B S E
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R V A T I O N S,</h4>
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<h5 id="Obad.i-p1.3">OF THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET</h5>
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<h2 id="Obad.i-p1.4">O B A D I A H.</h2>
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<hr style="width:2in"/>
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</div>
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<p class="indent" id="Obad.i-p2" shownumber="no"><span class="smallcaps" id="Obad.i-p2.1">This</span> is the
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shortest of all the books of the Old Testament, the least of those
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tribes, and yet is not to be passed by, or thought meanly of, for
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this penny has Cæsar's image and superscription upon it; it is
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stamped with a divine authority. There may appear much of God in a
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short sermon, in a little book; and much good may be done by it,
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<i>multum in parvo—much in a little.</i> Mr. Norris says, "If
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angels were to write books, we should have few folios." That may be
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very precious which is not voluminous. This book is entitled,
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<i>The Vision of Obadiah.</i> Who this Obadiah was does not appear
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from any other scripture. Some of the ancients imagined him to be
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the same with that Obadiah that was steward to Ahab's household
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(<scripRef id="Obad.i-p2.2" osisRef="Bible:1Kgs.18.3" parsed="|1Kgs|18|3|0|0" passage="1Ki 18:3">1 Kings xviii. 3</scripRef>); and, if
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so, he that hid and fed the prophets had indeed a prophet's reward,
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when he was himself made a prophet. But that is a conjecture which
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has no ground. This Obadiah, it is probable, was of a later date,
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some think contemporary with Hosea, Joel, and Amos; others think he
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lived about the time of the destruction of Jerusalem, when the
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children of Edom so barbarously triumphed in that destruction.
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However, what he wrote was what he saw; it is his <i>vision.</i>
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Probably there was much more which he was divinely inspired to
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speak, but this is all he was inspired to write; and all he writes
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is concerning Edom. It is a foolish fancy of some of the Jews that
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because he prophesies only concerning Edom he was himself an
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Edomite by birth, but a proselyte to the Jewish religion. Other
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prophets prophesied against Edom, and some of them seem to have
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borrowed from him in their predictions against Edom, as <scripRef id="Obad.i-p2.3" osisRef="Bible:Jer.49.7 Bible:Ezek.25.12" parsed="|Jer|49|7|0|0;|Ezek|25|12|0|0" passage="Jer 49:7,Eze 25:12">Jer. xlix. 7, &c.; Ezek. xxv.
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12</scripRef>, &c. Out of the mouth of these two or three
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witnesses every word will be established.</p>
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</div2>
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