Jeremiah 18:1
JEREMIAH'S TWELFTH PROPHECY (see book comments for Jeremiah). THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
JEREMIAH'S TWELFTH PROPHECY (see book comments for Jeremiah). THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE POTTER'S HOUSE. Note the lesson, set to Jeremiah there: that Jehovah never _mends_ what man has _marred._ He always substitutes something _new._ The _interpretation_ belongs to "THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL", and, that being "marred", the new "nation" is to be substituted. See Matthew 21:43. Compare Roma... [ Continue Reading ]
JEREMIAH'S THIRTEENTH PROPHECY (see book comments for Jeremiah). HOUSE OF ISRAEL. See note on Jeremiah 2:4. SAITH THE LORD. [is] Jehovah's oracle, BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._... [ Continue Reading ]
TO PLUCK UP. to declare that it should be plucked up. Hebrew idiom. Compare Jeremiah 1:10. PULL DOWN. Some codices, with two early printed editions and Syriac, read "tear away". Compare Jeremiah 1:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
EVIL. calamity. Hebrew. _ra'a',_ App-44. I WILL REPENT. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._... [ Continue Reading ]
TO BUILD, &C.. to declare that it should be built and planted.... [ Continue Reading ]
MEN. Hebrew ish. I FRAME. I work (as the potter in Jeremiah 18:3)... [ Continue Reading ]
IMAGINATION. stubbornness.... [ Continue Reading ]
HEATHEN. nations.... [ Continue Reading ]
WILL. MAN LEAVE... ? Note the Figure of speech _Erotesis_ and the Figure of speech _Ellipsis_ (App-6), and render: "Will [a man] leave the snow [water] of Lebanon for the rock of the field? Or, shall the cold flowing waters [be forsaken] for strange waters? SNOW: i.e. snow [water], used for mixin... [ Continue Reading ]
FORGOTTEN. Showing that the emphasis is on the leaving and forsaking of Jeremiah 18:14. VANITY. Used of idols. Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Subject).... [ Continue Reading ]
HISSING. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Effect), for the contempt felt.... [ Continue Reading ]
AS. Some codices, with five early printed editions, read "with", instead of "as". WIND. Hebrew. _ruach._ App-9. IN THE DAY. See App-18.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LAW, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 10:11). App-92. WITH THE TONGUE. with hard words. "Tongue" put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), for the hard words spoken by it.... [ Continue Reading ]
SHALL... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ my soul. me (emphatic). Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-18.... [ Continue Reading ]
CHILDREN. sons.... [ Continue Reading ]
TROOP. marauders.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEIR COUNSEL. See App-85. FORGIVE NOT. See App-86. INIQUITY. Hebrew. _'avon._ App-44. SIN. Hebrew. _chata'._ App-44.... [ Continue Reading ]