Jeremiah 18:1-23
1-17. Figure of the potter's clay.... [ Continue Reading ]
1-17. Figure of the potter's clay.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE POTTER'S HOUSE] Clay from which pottery was made was found S. of Jerusalem: cp. Zechariah 11:13; Matthew 27:10. The potter teaches Jeremiah important lessons concerning the providential rule of the world. 'As I watched him shaping the pliant clay, remodelling the imperfect vessels until they con... [ Continue Reading ]
FRAME] the Hebrew word is the same as that for 'potter.'... [ Continue Reading ]
WILL _a man_ LEAVE, etc.] RV 'Shall the snow of Lebanon fail from,' etc. Understand the answer, 'No, it is perpetual.' SHALL THE COLD, etc.] RV 'Shall the cold waters that flow down from afar' (mg. 'of strange land that flow down') 'be dried up?' Nature is constant in her operations, hat God, the Ro... [ Continue Reading ]
VANITY] i.e. idols.... [ Continue Reading ]
HISSING] not in contempt, but amazement.... [ Continue Reading ]
I WILL SHEW THEM THE BACK] God's countenance will be turned away. 18-23. Invocation of evil on the prophet's enemies.... [ Continue Reading ]
The people's appeal against Jeremiah's words to the three classes of persons whom they thought to be in undoubted possession of the truth. 21-23. The stern spirit of the OT. dispensation, as shown in these imprecations, was connected with the comparative darkness in which a future existence was the... [ Continue Reading ]