We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have
done
wickedly, and have rebelled
Some think there is a gradation in these words; that they had
committed some sins through error and ignorance; others through
infirmity and obliquity, or in the perverseness of their spirits,
and the crookedness of their ways; and others wilfully and in
malice, in the wickedness of their hearts; and others were open
acts of hostility against God, casting off his yoke, and refusing
obedience to him, and obstinately persisting therein. Jacchiades
refers them to sins of actions, words, and thoughts, which they
proudly and presumptuously committed. This heap of phrases seems
to be used to take in all kind of sin committed by them, and
rather to exaggerate than to extenuate them, and to confess them
with all their aggravated circumstances; and Daniel puts in
himself among the body of the people, as being a member of it,
and as well knowing he was not without sin; and therefore
willingly took his part in the blame of it, in confession of it,
and confusion for it: even by departing from thy precepts,
and from thy judgments;
both of a moral and positive nature, which were enjoined by the
law of Moses, as the rule of their conduct; but from this they
swerved.