Sofonias 3:4

4 Os seus profetas são levianos, homens aleivosos; os seus sacerdotes profanam o santuário, e fazem violência � lei.

Sofonias 3:4 Meaning and Commentary

Zephaniah 3:4

Her prophets [are] light [and treacherous persons
The false prophets, as the Targum and Kimchi explain it: these seem to design the lawyers spoken of in the New Testament, whose business it was to interpret the law to the people; these were "light" men, good for nothing, of no worth and value; light in knowledge, as Kimchi gives the sense of the word; men of no brains; empty headed men, that had no substantial knowledge; giddy, unstable, and inconstant, and compliant with the humours and vices of the people; men of no gravity in their countenance, speech, and conversation. Schultens ^F1, from the use of the word in the Arabic language, renders it "proud", as these men were, proud boasters; for, though they had but a superficial knowledge of things, they boasted of much, and carried it with a haughty and insolent air to the common people: and they were "treacherous" to God, and to his truths, and to the souls of men, and took away the key of knowledge from them; and particularly were so to Christ, of whom they were the betrayers and murderers, delivering him up into the hands of the Gentiles to be scourged and crucified, ( Matthew 20:18 Matthew 20:19 ) : her priests have polluted the sanctuary;
the temple; by selling, or suffering to be sold in it, various things, whereby it became a den of thieves, which once was called a house of prayer, ( Matthew 21:12 Matthew 21:13 ) and also our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom the sanctuary or temple was a type, by denying, blaspheming, and reproaching him, and by shedding his blood: they have done violence to the law;
by not teaching it as they should; and by their false glosses, senses, and interpretations of it; and by the traditions of the elders they preferred unto it, and whereby they made it void; see ( Matthew 5:1-48 ) and ( Matthew 15:1-39 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F1 Animadv. Philol. in Job, p. 144.

Sofonias 3:4 In-Context

2 Não escuta a voz, não aceita a correção, não confia no Senhor, nem se aproxima do seu Deus.

3 Os seus oficiais são leões rugidores no meio dela; os seus juízes são lobos da tarde, que nada deixam para o dia seguinte.

4 Os seus profetas são levianos, homens aleivosos; os seus sacerdotes profanam o santuário, e fazem violência � lei.

5 O Senhor é justo no meio dela; ele não comete iniqüidade; cada manhã traz o seu juízo � luz; nunca falta; o injusto, porém, não conhece a vergonha.

6 Exterminei as nações, as suas torres estão assoladas; fiz desertas as suas praças a ponto de não ficar quem passe por elas; as suas cidades foram destruídas, até não ficar ninguém, até não haver quem as habite.