Therefore have I also made you contemptible and
base
When their city and temple were destroyed by the Romans, and they
were carried captive by them, and became a taunt and a proverb in
all places where they came: before all the
people;
the nations of the world, among whom they were scattered:
according as ye have not kept my ways;
neither those which the law directed to, either moral or
ceremonial; nor what the Gospel directed to, the ordinances and
institutions of Christ, particularly baptism, which the Jews
rejected against themselves, ( Luke 7:30 ) : but
have been partial in the law;
in the observance of it, attending to the lesser, and taking no
notice of the weightier matters of it, as the Jews are charged by
Christ, ( Matthew
23:23 ) and in the interpretation of it, restraining its
sense only to outward actions, for which they are reproved, (
Matthew
5:1-48 ) or "received faces", or "accepted persons in the
law" F24; in matters of the law they were
concerned in, they had respect to the persons of men, by giving
the sense of it, and pronouncing judgment, in favour of some, to
the prejudice of others, wrongly.