“They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.”
The image of Israel as a heated oven suggests internal corruption building toward explosion, a metaphor for the inflammatory passions and lusts that drive Israel's behavior toward idolatry and injustice. The baker's fire that consumes the dough suggests that the very actions the people take to satisfy their desires will consume them, that internal heat will generate destruction. This verse establishes the self-destructive dynamic of sin—the pursuit of satisfaction through transgression produces only burning and destruction.
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