Deuteronomy 18:22 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Bible Comments

When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that [is] the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, [but] the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.

Ver. 22. Thou shalt not be afraid.] Though he speak "great swelling words of vanity," 2Pe 2:18 millstones and thunderbolts, as Hacket here did. a

a Camden's Elisab., fol. 403.

Deuteronomy 18:22

22 When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.