The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, Ver. 1. _The word that came to Jeremiah._] A new sermon, but to the same purpose as the former. See on Jeremiah 1:2. _Toto libro idem argumentum sursum deorsum versat._ _a_ a Oecolamp.... [ Continue Reading ]
Stand in the gate of the LORD'S house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all [ye of] Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the LORD. Ver. 2. Stand in the gate of the Lord's house.] The east gate, which was the most famous and most frequented of the people, a... [ Continue Reading ]
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place. Ver. 3. _Amend your ways and your doings._] Heb., Make good your ways, _sc., _ by repentance for and from your sins, and by believing the Gospel. _Defaecantur enim mores, u... [ Continue Reading ]
Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, [are] these. Ver. 4. _Trust ye not in lying words._] Or, Matters, _sc., _ that will deceive you. The ships _Triumph_ or _Good Speed_ may be _ventorum ludibrium,_ mocked by the wind and misca... [ Continue Reading ]
For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour; Ver. 5. _For if ye thoroughly amend your ways._] If ye thoroughly execute judgment; if ye be serious in the one, and sedulous in the other. See Jeremiah 7:2 .... [ Continue Reading ]
Jeremiah 7:6 [If] ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt: Ver. 6. _If ye oppress not the stranger, &c._] _Turtures amat Deus, non vultures._ See on Isaiah 1:23 .... [ Continue Reading ]
Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever. Ver. 7. _Then will I cause you to dwell in this place._] Not else. God's promises are with a condition, which is as an oar in a boat or stern of a ship, and turns the promise another way.... [ Continue Reading ]
Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit. Ver. 8. _Behold, ye trust, &c._] See on Jeremiah 7:4 .... [ Continue Reading ]
Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not; Ver. 9. _Will ye steal, murder, &c._] Heb., Will ye stealing steal, murdering murder, &c. - _i.e., _ drive a trade with the devil by these foul practices allowed an... [ Continue Reading ]
And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations? Ver. 10. _And come and stand before me in this house._] This was worse than to do as the Circassiaus, a kind of mongrel Christians of the Greek Church of this day, who, as... [ Continue Reading ]
_Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen [it], saith the LORD._ Ver. 11. _Is this house, which is called by my name._] Is it become _impiae gentis arcanum?_ as Florus afterwards spitefully called it; or a professed sanctuary of rogue... [ Continue Reading ]
But go ye now unto my place which [was] in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel. Ver. 12. _But go ye now._] _Non passibus sed sensibus._ Summon the sobriety of your senses before your own judgments, and consider what I did of old... [ Continue Reading ]
And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the LORD, and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not; Ver. 13. _And now, because ye have done._] Worthily are they made examples to others, that will not take example by others; tha... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore will I do unto [this] house, which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh. Ver. 14. _Therefore will I do unto this house._] Which ye fondly think that I am bound to hold and uphold. The disciples also se... [ Continue Reading ]
And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, [even] the whole seed of Ephraim. Ver. 15. _And I will cast you out of my sight._] Heb., From against, or over against my face. _ As I have cast out your brethren._] For your instance and admonition I hanged them up in gibb... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee. Ver. 16. _Therefore pray not thou for this people._] For I am unchangeably resolved upon their ruin, and I would not have thy prayers, those honeydrops, spilt... [ Continue Reading ]
_Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?_ Ver. 17. _Seest thou not what they do?_] _a_ And hast thou yet a heart to pray for them? and should I yet have a heart to pity them? There is only this hope left sometimes, that something God will yield to the pra... [ Continue Reading ]
The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead [their] dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger. _Ver 18. The children gather wood._] _a_ All sorts, sizes, and sexes are as busy as... [ Continue Reading ]
Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: [do they] not [provoke] themselves to the confusion of their own faces? Ver. 19. _Do they provoke me to anger?_] _i.e., _ Hurt they me by their provocations? or hope they to get the better of me, and to cause me to lay down the bucklers first? Surely, as... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched. Ver. 20. _Mine anger and mine fury._] A very dreadful doo... [ Continue Reading ]
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh. Ver. 21. _Put your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat flesh._] _Congerite, ingerite, digerite, egerite._ Take away all your sacrifices, wherewith ye fondly think to expiate your s... [ Continue Reading ]
For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: Ver. 22. _For I spake not unto your fathers._] _Videlicet solum aut simpliciter._ Only clearly and candidly I gave them not those holy rites as th... [ Continue Reading ]
But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you. Ver. 23. _But this thing I commanded them,_] _i.e., _ I principally commanded them, giving them therefore f... [ Continue Reading ]
But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels [and] in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward. Ver. 24. _But they hearkened not, nor inclined._] So cross grained they were, and thwart from the very first. _ In the imagination of their e... [ Continue Reading ]
Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending [them]: Ver. 25. _Since the day._] The Church hath never wanted preachers of the truth. See my True Treasure, pp. 7, 8. Woe to... [ Continue Reading ]
Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers. Ver. 26. _Yet they hearkened not unto me._] This God speaketh to the prophet, as weary of talking to them any longer, since it was to no better purpose.... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee. Ver. 27. _But they will not hearken unto thee._] Howbeit speak - "whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear" - for a testimony against t... [ Continue Reading ]
But thou shalt say unto them, This [is] a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth. Ver. 28. _This is a nation._] A heathenish nation, such as they use to reproach with this name, _Goi,_ and _Mamzer Gojim,_... [ Continue Reading ]
Cut off thine hair, [O Jerusalem], and cast [it] away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath. Ver. 29. _Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem._] In token of greatest sorrow and servitude. Job 1:20 Isa 15:2 Eze 27:31 _Tu, dum servus e... [ Continue Reading ]
For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it. Ver. 30. _They have set their abominations in the house._] So do those now that broach heresies in the Church.... [ Continue Reading ]
And they have built the high places of Tophet, which [is] in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded [them] not, neither came it into my heart. Ver. 31. _To burn their sons and their daughters._] Haply in a sinful imitation of Abraham o... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place. Ver. 32. _It shall no more be called Tophet._] Unless it be _quasi Mophet,_ _i.e., _ _Po... [ Continue Reading ]
And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray [them] away. Ver. 33. _And the carcases of this people,_] _a_ Their murrain carcases, as the Vulgate rendereth it. _ Shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven._] Whereby... [ Continue Reading ]
Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate. Ver. 34. _Then will I cause to cease._] _Laetitia in luctum convertetur, pl... [ Continue Reading ]