SEV Biblia, Chapter 32:16
Le despertaron a celos con los dioses ajenos; le ensañaron con abominaciones.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 16. They provoked him to jealousy with strange [gods] , etc.] Or “with others” f593 ; the word “gods” is not in the text, nor were the Jews guilty of worshipping strange gods or idols in the times of Christ, nor had they been from the time of their coming out of the Babylonish captivity; but the word, as Cocceius observes, is used for “another”, as in ( Job 19:27); and signifies other saviours, other messiahs, whom the Jews set up when they rejected Christ, the rock of salvation; and it is observable, that before the coming of Christ, they never attempted to set up any; but, after they had rejected him, were ready to embrace everyone that offered, of which one, called Bar Cochab, the son of a star, in allusion to ( Numbers 24:17); is a flagrant instance; and whom, when they found themselves deceived, they called Bar Cozba, the son of a lie, or a lying fellow; to whom our Lord may be thought to have respect, ( John 5:43); and where he expressly calls him another. Now, not only to reject Jesus, the true Messiah, but to set up others in his room, false Christs, was highly provoking to God, who is a jealous God, and will not give his glory to another: with abominations provoked they him to anger ; by advancing the traditions of the elders to an equality with, and above the word of God; and by continuing sacrifices, after the great sacrifice was offered up, when they ought to have ceased; for, by continuing them, it was saying Christ was not come in the flesh, nor his sacrifice offered up; it was trampling under foot the Son of God, and treating his blood and sacrifice with contempt; which must be an abomination to God, and highly provoking of his anger, when that sacrifice was of a sweet smelling savour to him; and especially what was abominable to him, and grievously provoked him to anger and wrath, was their setting up the idol of their own righteousness, refusing to submit to the righteousness of Christ, ( Romans 10:3); and indeed, whenever anything is set up in competition with him, or in opposition to him, be it what it will, it must be an abomination to God; because it opposes his purposes and resolutions of saving men by Christ alone, reflects on his wisdom in the scheme of salvation, flies in the face of his love, grace, and mercy, makes the death of Christ of none effect, advances pride in the creature, gives God the lie, who says there is no other Saviour, and is a total slight and neglect of his Gospel; all which must be abominable, and dreadfully provoking to him; (see Isaiah 65:5) ( Luke 16:15 18:14); Ver. 17 . They sacrificed to devils, not to God , etc.] Their sacrifices being continued, when it was the will of God they should cease, were reckoned by him not as, offered to him, but to demons, and to such that were not God; they being therein under the instigation of Satan, and doing his lusts, ( John 8:44); just as Pagans and Papists, worshipping idols under the influence and direction of Satan, are said to worship devils, and sacrifice to them, ( 1 Corinthians 10:20 Revelation 9:20); and indeed setting up their own righteousness was sacrificing to their own net, and burning incense to their own drag, to an idol, and not to God: to which may be added, that whereas they trampled under foot the Son of God, and did despite to the Spirit of grace, by which Christ cast out devils, and offered himself without spot, they excluded two of the divine Persons in the Deity, and so worshipped not the true God, Father, Son, and Spirit: to gods whom they knew not, to [gods that] came newly up ; such as angels, into the worship of which they fell, as their writings testify f594 , and to which the apostle seems to have respect, ( Colossians 2:18); whom your fathers feared not ; paid no regard unto, put no trust or confidence in; or, as the Targum of Jonathan, “with whom your fathers had nothing to do:” as they had not with the idol of man’s righteousness, but wholly looked unto and trusted in the grace and righteousness of Christ, and expected salvation alone by him: the Gospel of righteousness and salvation by Christ was preached to our first parents in Eden’s garden, which they embraced and believed in; Noah was an heir and preacher of the righteousness of faith, that is, of the righteousness of Christ, received by faith; that righteousness, which was what Abraham believed in, was imputed to him for his justifying righteousness; and Jacob waited for the Messiah, the salvation of God; in short all the Old Testament saints were saved by the grace of Christ, as we are; the idols, the works of men’s own righteousness, are new deities they paid no deference to, placed no confidence in.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 15-18 - Here are two instances of the wickedness of Israel, each was apostac from God. These people were called Jeshurun, "an upright people," s some; "a seeing people," so others: but they soon lost the reputatio both of their knowledge and of their righteousness. They indulged their appetites, as if they had nothing to do but to make provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts of it. Those who make a god of themselves and a god of their bellies, in pride and wantonness, and cannot bear to be told of it, thereby forsake God, and show they esteem him lightly There is but one way of a sinner's acceptance and sanctification however different modes of irreligion, or false religion, may show tha favourable regard for other ways, which is often miscalled candid. Ho mad are idolaters, who forsake the Rock of salvation, to run themselve upon the rock of perdition!
Original Hebrew
יקנאהו 7065 בזרים 2114 בתועבת 8441 יכעיסהו׃ 3707
