"O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel."
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Verse Jeremiah 18:6. _CANNOT I DO WITH YOU AS THIS POTTER?_] Have I
not a right to do with a people whom I have created as reason and
justice may require? If they do not answer my intentions, may I no...
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SO ARE YE IN MINE HAND - When a vessel was ruined, the potter did not
throw it away, but crushed it together, dashed it back upon the wheel,
and began his work afresh, until the clay had taken the pre...
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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 commanded to go...
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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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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._...
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"First of the prophets, Jeremiah proclaims distinctly what had been
more or less implied throughout, that predictions were subject to no
overruling necessity, but depended for their fulfilment on the...
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DISCOURSE: 1058
THE POTTER’S POWER OVER THE CLAY
Jeremiah 18:6. _O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this
potter? saith the Lord. Behold, as the clay is in the potter’s hand,
so are ye in my h...
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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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O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the
LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine
hand, O house of Israel.
O HOUSE OF ISRAEL, CANNOT I DO WITH Y...
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1-17. Figure of the potter's clay....
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CANNOT I DO WITH YOU AS THIS POTTER? — The question implies a theory
of the universe, which is neither (as some have thought) one of
absolute fatalism, crushing man’s freedom, nor, on the other hand,...
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הֲ כַ † יֹּוצֵ֨ר הַ זֶּ֜ה לֹא ־אוּכַ֨ל
לַ עֲשֹׂ֥ות לָכֶ֛ם בֵּ֥ית יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל
נְאֻם...
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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 be...
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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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Reader! Was not our nature marred by sin after it came out of the
hands of our Almighty Potter? Did the Lord throw it away? No! He new
made it in Christ Jesus. Oh! what numberless, sweet instructions,...
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_THE POTTER AND THE CLAY_
‘As the clay is in the potter’s hand.’
Jeremiah 18:6
I. DISHEARTENED WITH HIS FRUITLESS ATTEMPTS TO BRING HIS PEOPLE TO
REPENTANCE, JEREMIAH WAS BIDDEN TO WATCH THE POTTE...
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Now, in the application, we must notice how things correspond: As the
clay is at the will and under the power of the potter, so men are at
the will of God: God then is compared to the potter. There is...
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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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O HOUSE OF ISRAEL, CANNOT I DO WITH YOU AS THIS POTTER? SAITH THE
LORD,.... Make, and mar, and remake at pleasure? certainly he could.
God is a sovereign Being, and has a sovereign and uncontrollable...
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O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the
LORD. Behold, as the clay [is] in the potter's hand, so [are] ye in
mine hand, O house of Israel.
Ver. 6. _O house of Israel, cannot...
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_Cannot I do with you as this potter?_ Have I not as absolute an
authority and power over you? Nay, God has an infinitely clearer title
to dominion over us than the potter has over the clay, for the p...
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THE PARABLE OF THE POTTER...
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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 a...
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God now expoundeth to the prophet his design in bidding him go to the
potter's house, it was to instruct or confirm him in the power that he
had over his creatures. For, saith he, as is the clay to th...
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Jeremiah 18:6 house H1004 Israel H3478 not H3201 (H8799) do H6213
(H8800) potter H3335 (H8802) says H5002 (H8803) LORD H3068 clay H2563
potters H3335 (H8802) hand H3027 hand H3027 house H1004 Israel H...
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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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Jeremiah 18:1
Consider what Jeremiah's business was, and how the potter might help
him in understanding and performing it.
I. Jeremiah sees a man engaged in a task to which he is devoting all
his tho...
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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 18:6 CAN I NOT DO WITH YOU? As its maker,
God can reshape ISRAEL.
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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 hous...
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Daniel 4:23; Isaiah 64:8; Jeremiah 18:4; Matthew 20:15; Romans 11:34...
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Cannot I do — That God hath an absolute sovereign power to do what
he pleases with the work of his hands: but he acts as a just judge,
rendering to every man according to his works....