[“Idolatry” matches “think^group“.  “Sinful attitudes” matches “conscience^lacking“.  The prophets stood in the place of the suprasovereign religion.   They placed the sovereign^infra into context.  They criticized think^pro-object and were accused of think^anti-object.

However, the prophets of old turned out to be correct.  Their correct predictions were thus recorded, incorporated into the Torah, when the exiles returned.  On this slippery foundation, the Pharisees, Sadducees and Scribes stood.]