Jeremiah 18:2
_Potter's. Thus God would shew his dominion over all, Romans ix. 21._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Potter's. Thus God would shew his dominion over all, Romans ix. 21._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Wheel. Hebrew, "stones." Septuagint, "seats;" or "wheel." (Chaldean) (Exodus i. 16.) See Ecclesiasticus xxxviii. 32. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Broken. So Providence ordered it. (St. Jerome) --- How should this idea humble man! (Calmet) --- A potter may mould afresh the clay as long as it is soft, but God can change the hardest heart. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Shall repent, having free-will, though prevented by grace. (St. Jerome)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Hopes. Chap. ii. 25. Septuagint, "we are valiant men." (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Virgin. The disorders of Israel are thus enhanced. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Snow. It continues on Libanus seven or eight months, (La Roque quoted. Univ. Hist. ii. p. 363) or all the year; (Tacitus, Hist. v. 6.) and hence the mountain is justly denominated "white," as the Alps and Albion are from albon. (Bochart; Parkhurst, p. 155.) (Haydock) --- Away. Yet my people abandon... [ Continue Reading ]
_Ancient; followed by the patriarchs, chap. vi. 16._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Head, through contempt (Calmet) and pity, Lamentations ii. 15._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Burning. Hebrew kadim, "eastern," (Haydock) coming from Desert Arabia, Exodus x. 13. (Calmet) --- Back. Thus the Lord now treats the synagogue. (St. Jerome)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Prophet. Jeremias will not cease to upbraid us with our transgressions; or we have guides as good as him, and we shall not be left destitute, as he would intimate. --- Tongue, detraction; or make him suffer for what he says. In all the transactions of this prophet, Christ was foreshewn; (Calmet) an... [ Continue Reading ]
_Remember, &c. This is spoken in the person of Christ, persecuted by the Jews, and prophetically denouncing the evils that should fall upon them in punishment for their crimes. (Challoner) --- Jeremias had prayed earnestly for the people, chap. xiv. 17. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Therefore. He foretells of the event, and approves of the chastisement of the impenitent, (Calmet) whose "impurity might be a bad precedent for others.["] (St. Jerome) See chap. xvii. 18._... [ Continue Reading ]
_For. Protestants, "when." (Haydock) --- Robber. So Nabuchodonosor and all professional conquerors are styled. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Destroy. Hebrew, "with them." use them as vessels of ignominy: abutere. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER XVIII.... [ Continue Reading ]