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Verse Jeremiah 18:10. Jeremiah 18:7....
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CHAPTER 18
The Potter and the Clay
_ 1. In the potter's house and the message (Jeremiah 18:1) _
2. The plot against the prophet and his prayer (Jeremiah 18:18)
Jeremiah 18:1. He was comm
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THE POTTER AND THE CLAY. The potter (Jeremiah 18:1) moulding his clay
on the upper stone, which he makes revolve by his feet resting on the
connected lower stone, is compared with Yahweh in His contro...
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See introd. note....
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B. The Interpretation for the Prophet Jeremiah 18:5-10
TRANSLATION
(5) And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, (6) Am I not able
to do to you as this potter (oracle of the LORD)? Behold, like...
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_AND AT WHAT INSTANT I SHALL SPEAK CONCERNING A NATION, AND CONCERNING
A KINGDOM, TO BUILD AND TO PLANT IT;_ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THESE
VERSES....
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1-17. Figure of the potter's clay....
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(7-10) AT WHAT INSTANT I SHALL SPEAK CONCERNING A NATION... — The
words carry the thoughts of the prophet back to those which had been
stamped indelibly on his memory when he was first called to his w...
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וְ עָשָׂ֤ה _הָ_†_רַע֙_† בְּ עֵינַ֔י לְ...
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CHAPTER XI
THE DIVINE POTTER
Jeremiah 18:1
JEREMIAH goes down into the Lower Town, or the valley between the
upper and lower city; and there his attention is arrested by a potter
sitting at work bef...
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We now come to the second series of messages before the fall of
Jerusalem (18-20), which consists of declarations of God's absolute
supremacy. In preparation for this, Jeremiah was sent to the house o...
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The Lord himself explains and applies his type of the Potter. And in
Jesus how hath the doctrine been fully proved? Surely the Lord can
with infinitely more ease create new hearts in his people, and r...
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Now follows the opposite clause, _But if it will do evil before mine
eyes, so as not to hear my voice_; that is, when a nation has been
planted through my kindness, (for this is required by the contex...
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In chapter 18 this principle is fully demonstrated before the people
(Jeremiah 18:1-10). But the people in despair as to God, in the midst
of their boldness in evil and in contempt of His marvellous p...
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IF IT DO EVIL IN MY SIGHT,.... What is sinful, contrary to the law and
will of God, openly and publicly, in a bold and daring manner:
THAT IT OBEY NOT MY VOICE: in my word, and by my prophets, but tu...
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If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will
repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.
Ver. 10. _Then will I repent of the good._] I will take away mine
own, and...
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_If I shall speak concerning a nation to build and to plant_ That is,
To advance and establish all the true interests of it; _if it do evil
in my sight_, &c. If it lose its piety and virtue, and becom...
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THE PARABLE OF THE POTTER...
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if it do evil in My sight, that It obey not My voice, then I will
repent of the good wherewith I said I would benefit them, the
obstinacy and wickedness of such a people depriving it of the
blessings...
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1-10 While Jeremiah looks upon the potter's work, God darts into his
mind two great truths. God has authority, and power, to form and
fashion kingdoms and nations as he pleases. He may dispose of us...
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SPEAKING, JEREMIAH 18:9, and repenting, Jeremiah 18:10, must be
understood in the same sense as in the two former verses. The reason
of this is, because in all God's threatenings and promises of this...
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THE LESSON OF THE PATIENT POTTER (JEREMIAH 18:1).
In one of the most beautiful illustrations in the Old Testament YHWH
illustrates His readiness ever to show mercy in the lesson of the
patient potter....
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CONTENTS: Sign of the potter's house. Declaration of God's ways of
dealing with nations. Jeremiah's complaint.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: Jehovah has incontestable and irresistible abili...
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Jeremiah 18:6. _As the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in my
hand._ The sense is given in the next words; the exaltation, or the
degradation of a nation, is wholly with the Lord. If they, unde...
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_Go down to the potter’s house._
THE POTTER AND THE CLAY
(with Romans 9:19):--The potter and the clay! Is not that parable the
germ of all that is most oppressive in the “terrible decree” of
Calvinis...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 18:10 RELENT OF THE GOOD. Remove the
blessing the people could have received.
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. Early
in Jehoiakim’s reign (See _Chronological Note_ on Section 19–27 of
previous chapter). Probably about two years later than that messag...
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EXPOSITION
This chapter is the introduction of a group of prophecies (extending
to Jeremiah 25:1.) of various dates; their sequence has evidently not
been determined by chronological considerations. T...
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Now in chapter 18:
The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, Arise, and go
down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my
words. Then I went down to the potter's house...
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1 Samuel 13:13; 1 Samuel 15:11; 1 Samuel 15:35; 1 Samuel 2:30;...