6<\/strong>. dishonoureth<\/em> ] Lit. ‘treateth as a fool.’ The same verb in the same form occurs in Deu 32:6<\/span>. It is unsafe however to argue that Deuteronomy must have been already written in the time of Micah, for we also find the word in Jer 14:21<\/span>, Nah 3:6<\/span>.<\/p>\n Mic 7:7-20<\/em><\/span>. Here the thread of thought is broken; the following verses appear to have been attached later. The speaker is, indeed, still the true Israel; but here she appears already overpowered by her enemies, whereas in Mic 7:1-6<\/em><\/span> the day of chastisement was still far off. Here, accordingly, consolation is the chief object of the prophetic writer; in the earlier passage, he had to warn his people of the still future calamity. In its tone this section reminds us of the Book of Israel’s Consolation which follows on chap. 37 of the Book of Isaiah.<\/p>\n Verse 6<\/span>. For the son dishonoureth the father<\/B><\/I>] See the use our Lord has made of these words, where he quotes them, Mt 10:21<\/span>; Mt 10:25<\/span>; Mt 10:36<\/span>, and the notes there.<\/P> <\/p>\n For:<\/B> the prophet here gives us a reason of his advice to be wary how and whom they trust. <\/P> The son; <\/B>who received his being, maintenance, education, and inherits the honour as well as estate of his father; the son, obliged by most inviolable laws to please, preserve, and honour his father, <\/P> dishonoureth, <\/B>seeks to accuse, vilify, endanger, and ruin <\/P> the father; <\/B>whose dishonour and loss, or ruin, is also the sons dishonour and ruin; yet unnatural treachery will be so rife in those times, that the father had need keep his guard upon his very son. <\/P> The daughter, <\/B>whose love and affection are usually more tender than the sons towards parents, yet will forget their duty. <\/P> Riseth up against her mother, <\/B>that bare them, that nursed them, that, more than fathers, tend, indulge, and bear with them. So monstrous shall the perfidiousness of that age be. <\/P> The daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law:<\/B> in consanguinity there was not any faithfulness, in affinity much less may you expect it. <\/P> A mans enemies, <\/B>the worst and most perilous enemies, who will be most ready and most able to do them mischief, <\/P> are the men of his own house; <\/B>among relations and retainers, who by law of God and nature should have been faithfullest friends. So it fell out through the civil wars of the Jews, in their seditious and in their calamitous days. Much like to this is that of Christ, Mat 10:21<\/span>,35<\/span>,36<\/span>. <\/P> <\/p>\n 6. son dishonoureth the father<\/B>Thestate of unnatural lawlessness in all relations of life is heredescribed which is to characterize the last times, before Messiahcomes to punish the ungodly and save Israel (compare Luk 21:16<\/span>;2Ti 3:1-3<\/span>).<\/P><\/p>\n For the son dishonoureth the father<\/strong>,…. Speaks contemptibly of him; behaves rudely towards him; shows him no respect and reverence; exposes his failings, and makes him the object of his banter and ridicule; who ought to have honoured, reverenced, and obeyed him, being the instrument of his being, by whom he was brought up, fed, clothed, and provided for; base ingratitude!<\/p>\n the daughter riseth up against her mother<\/strong>; by whom she has been used in the most tender and affectionate manner; this being still more unnatural, if possible, as being done by the female sex, usually more soft and pliable; but here, losing her natural affection, and forgetting both her relation and sex, replies to her mother, giving ill language; opposes and disobeys her, chides, wrangles, and scolds, and strives and litigates with her, as the Targum: or rises up as a witness against her, to her detriment, if not to the taking away of her life:<\/p>\n the daughter in law against her mother in law<\/strong>; this is not so much to be wondered at as, the former instances, which serve to encourage and embolden those that are in such a relation to speak pertly and saucily; to reproach and make, light of mothers in law, as the Targum; or slight and abuse them:<\/p>\n a man’s enemies [are] the men of his own house<\/strong>; his sons and his servants, who should honour his person, defend his property, and promote his interest; but, instead of that, do everything that is injurious to him. These words are referred to by Christ, and used by him to describe the times in which he lived, Mt 10:35<\/span>; and the prophet may be thought to have an eye to the same, while he is settling forth the badness of his own times; and the Jews seem to think be had a regard to them, since they say y, that, when the Messiah comes, “the son shall dishonour his father”, c. plainly having this passage in view and the; whole agrees with the times of Christ, in which there were few good men; it was a wicked age, an adulterous generation of men, he lived among; great corruption there was in princes, priests, and people; in the civil and ecclesiastical rulers, and in all ranks and degrees of men; and he that ate bread with Christ, even Judas, lifted up his heel against him. The times in which Micah the prophet here speaks of seem to he the times of Ahaz, who was a wicked prince; and the former part of Hezekiah’s reign, before a reformation was started, or at least brought about, in whose reigns he prophesied; though some have thought he here predicts the sad times in the reign of Manasseh, which is not so probable.<\/p>\n y Misn. Sotah, c. 9. sect. 15.<\/p>\n Mic 7:6 For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man’s enemies [are] the men of his own house.<\/p>\n Ver. 6. For the son dishonoureth the father<\/strong> ] Or, revileth the father (Menabbel), be-Nabals him, beknaves him (of Nabal comes Nebulo<\/em> ), turpitudine afficit,<\/em> bepastles him, vilifleth him. This is monstrous wickedness, Mal 1:6<\/span> , and a sure sign the devil hath set his limbs in a man that is thus unnatural, fierce, traitorous, heady, high-minded; which yet is foretold of these dregs of time, these last and worst days, both by our Saviour, Mat 10:21<\/span> ; Mat 10:35-36<\/span> , and likewise by St Paul, 2Ti 3:3-4<\/span> . Such a son was he who, when his father complained that never father had so undutiful a child as he had: Yes, said his son (with less grace than wit), my grandfather had. Such a son was Ham, and Absalom, and Amida, son of Muleasses, King of Tunis, who cast his father out of his kingdom, and put out his eyes; and Henry, eldest son to our Henry II, who rebelled against his father, and died before him of a fever and a flux, with excoriation of the bowels; and, lastly, Adolphus Egmondanus, who imprisoned his own father six years for no other cause but for living so long, and keeping him from the dukedom of Guelderland. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The daughter riseth up against her mother<\/strong> ] As Mr Fox mentioneth some that witnessed against their own parents here in Queen Mary’s days, and were a means of their martyrdom. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n A man’s enemies are the men of his own house] See Mat 10:36<\/span> . See Trapp on “<\/em> Mat 10:36 “<\/em> Take our Saviour’s counsel there; “Be ye wise as serpents, innocent as doves”; but beware of men, yea, of the men of your own house. <\/p>\n “ Fide Deo soli: mortali fidito nulli:<\/p>\n Fallunt mortales: fullere Iova nequit. ”<\/p>\n dishonoureth, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Exo 20:12. Deu 5:16). App-92. <\/p>\n men. Hebrew, plural of ‘enosh. App-14. Mic 7:6 does not end “abruptly”, nor does there “yawn a century”. Mic 7:7 gives the true remedy in contrast with the vain remedies of verses: Mic 7:5, Mic 7:6. <\/p>\n son: Gen 9:22-24, Gen 49:4, 2Sa 15:10-12, 2Sa 16:11, 2Sa 16:21-23, Pro 30:11, Pro 30:17, Eze 22:7, Mat 10:21, Mat 10:35, Mat 10:36, Luk 12:53, Luk 21:16, 2Ti 3:2, 2Ti 3:3 <\/p>\n a man’s: Psa 41:9, Psa 55:12-14, Jer 12:6, Jer 20:10, Oba 1:7, Mat 26:23, Mat 26:49, Mat 26:50, Joh 13:18 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Gen 4:8 – talked 2Sa 9:12 – servants 2Sa 15:12 – David’s Job 6:15 – My brethren Job 19:14 – kinsfolk Psa 31:11 – especially Psa 39:1 – while Psa 69:8 – and an alien Son 1:6 – my mother’s Isa 9:19 – no man Jer 9:4 – ye heed Jer 11:21 – that seek Dan 11:26 – that feed Mat 24:10 – betray Luk 12:52 – General Luk 22:21 – General Joh 7:5 – General Act 14:4 – the multitude<\/p>\n Mic 7:6. The apparent difficulty in the preceding verse is accounted for in this. When people are normal in their attitude toward others such advice as the foregoing is uncallerl-for. But al! the usual influences between the various relations of members of families had become so corrupted that nobody eould be trusted. Jesus predicted a similar condition would come after He had done his work on the earth (Mat 10:34-36). In his case the situation was to be caused by the teaching which was to be delivered to mankind, because many would reject it and hence would become enemies of those who accepted it. Doubtless some such motives figured in the case as Micah sow it.<\/p>\n For the son dishonoreth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man’s enemies [are] the men of his own house. 6. dishonoureth ] Lit. ‘treateth as a fool.’ The same verb in the same form occurs in Deu 32:6. 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