Jeremiah 4:1
_Blocks; idols, (Calmet) and other occasions of sin. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Blocks; idols, (Calmet) and other occasions of sin. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Swear, when requisite. (Calmet) --- Thus thou wilt learn to confess one God. (Theodoret) --- If all were upright, oaths would be unnecessary, Matthew v. 34. But as they are not so, (Calmet) this may be a religious act. (Worthington) --- Justice. These three conditions are essential. (Haydock) --- H... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thorns. Your misconduct hinders your advancement. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Hearts. Understand, and act with purity. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Cities. Nabuchodonosor is at hand._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Robber. Nabuchodonosor attacks unjustly, (Calmet) though he be God's scourge._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Heart; counsel and vigour. --- Prophets of falsehood._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Alas! Protestants, "Then I said: Ah! Lord God, surely thou hast deceived," &c., (Haydock) by permitting the people to follow false prophets, Isaias lxi. 17., and Psalm xliii. 19._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Desert of Arabia. It may designate Nechao, (2 Paralipomenon xxxv. 20.) who slew Josias, after whose death all fell to ruin._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Ephraim. At Bethel and Dan the calves were adored. (Calmet) --- But they were now no more. (Haydock) --- The irruption of Nabuchodonosor is announced. He set himself up for a god._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Guards. The Chaldeans will besiege the city, and prevent provisions from entering, 4 Kings xxv. 1. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_My. God, (St. Jerome) the people, (Grotius) or rather Jeremias speaks._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Moment. The cities are destroyed as easily as a tent._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Me, practically. They have not honoured me as they ought. (Calmet) --- If they were indeed devoid of sense, they would be excused. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Void. Hebrew, " Thohu and bohu, " like chaos, Genesis i. 2. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER IV. _ Gone. Beasts feel the wrath of God, and in a land uninhabited; not even birds will remain, Osee iv. 3. (St. Jerome)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Carmel: the beautiful country of Palestine, (Haydock) Jerusalem, (Theodoret) or the mountain so called._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Destroy, when Jechonias was led captive. God allowed the people still eleven years to repent; and he afterwards restored the Jews. (Calmet) --- He will never suffer his church to perish. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Repented. Only a finite being can do this. God's resolution is here unconditional and fixed._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Stone, or antimony, like Jazabel, (4 Kings ix. 30.) to darken and enlarge the eye-lids. --- Lovers. Infidel nations of Egypt, &c._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Child. Hebrew and Septuagint, "a first-born," when the pains are most acute. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]