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<P><FONT SIZE=+3>Obadiah</FONT></P>
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<P><B>AN</B></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=+2>EXPOSITION,</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=+1>W I T H P R A C T I C A L O B S E R V A T I O N S,</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=-1>OF THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=+3><B>O B A D I A H.</B></FONT>
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T<FONT SIZE=-1>HIS</FONT> is the shortest of all the books of the Old
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Testament, the least of those tribes, and yet is not to be passed by,
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or thought meanly of, for this penny has Cæsar's image and
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superscription upon it; it is stamped with a divine authority. There
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may appear much of God in a short sermon, in a little book; and much
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good may be done by it, <I>multum in parvo--much in a little.</I> Mr.
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Norris says, "If angels were to write books, we should have few
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folios." That may be very precious which is not voluminous. This book
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is entitled, <I>The Vision of Obadiah.</I> Who this Obadiah was does
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not appear from any other scripture. Some of the ancients imagined him
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to be the same with that Obadiah that was steward to Ahab's household
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(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=1Ki+18:3">1 Kings xviii. 3</A>);
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and, if so, he that hid and fed the prophets had indeed a prophet's
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reward, when he was himself made a prophet. But that is a conjecture
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which 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 children
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of Edom so barbarously triumphed in that destruction. However, what he
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wrote was what he saw; it is his <I>vision.</I> Probably there was much
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more which he was divinely inspired to speak, but this is all he was
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inspired to write; and all he writes is concerning Edom. It is a
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foolish fancy of some of the Jews that because he prophesies only
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concerning Edom he was himself an Edomite by birth, but a proselyte to
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the Jewish religion. Other prophets prophesied against Edom, and some
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of them seem to have borrowed from him in their predictions against
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Edom, as
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Jer+49:7,Eze+25:12">Jer. xlix. 7, &c.; Ezek. xxv. 12</A>,
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&c. Out of the mouth of these two or three witnesses every word will be
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