耶利米書 18:6 RCUVTS

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 18:6

The potter and the clay. The analogy here instituted enshrines truths that are of universal application. They have their individual quite as much as their national beatings. Nowhere does the representative character of the house of Israel appear mere clearly than in this passage; nowhere do we get a more striking view of the general method of the Divine dealings with the human race. It suggests— I. GOD 'S ABSOLUTE SOVEREIGNTY OVER THE BEING AND LIFE OF EVERY MAN .... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 18:6

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 predetermined shape. It was God’s purpose that Judaea should become the proper scene for the manifestation of the Messiah, and her sons be fit to receive the Saviour’s teaching and carry the good tidings to all lands. If therefore at any stage of the preparation the Jewish nation took such a course as... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 18:6

Jeremiah 18:6. 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 potter only gives the clay its form; whereas we have both matter and form from God. As the work of his hands, made and preserved by him, and yet more as sinners redeemed by him, we are entirely in his hands, and at his disposal, and he has an undoubted right to do with us what he... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 18:1-23

Lessons from the potter (18:1-23)A potter can make a lump of clay into whatever shape he wants. He can also change the kind of vessel he is making, if he thinks that conditions require it (18:1-4). As a potter determines the kind of vessel he makes, so God determines the destinies of nations, and this is the lesson that the people of Judah must learn (5-6). He may announce judgments on a nation, but he may withdraw those judgments if the nation repents. On the other hand, he may promise... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 18:6

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. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 18:6

6. Refuting the Jews' reliance on their external privileges as God's elect people, as if God could never cast them off. But if the potter, a mere creature, has power to throw away a marred vessel and raise up other clay from the ground, a fortiori God, the Creator, can cast away the people who prove unfaithful to His election and can raise others in their stead (compare Isaiah 45:9; Isaiah 64:8; Romans 9:20; Romans 9:21). It is curious that the potter's field should have been the purchase made... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 18:1-12

The lesson of the potter’s vessel 18:1-12There are indications in this message that God might yet avert judgment (Jeremiah 18:7-8; Jeremiah 18:11), so Jeremiah evidently delivered it sometime before the Babylonians invaded Judah. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 18:5-6

The Lord’s message to Jeremiah for the nation was that He had the right to deal with Judah as the potter dealt with his clay (cf. Romans 9:20-21). Judah was like clay in Yahweh’s hands. Yahweh was also like a potter (Heb. yoser) in that He created and shaped (Heb. yasar) His people. read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 18:1-18

Jeremiah’s Eleventh Prophecy (Reign of Jehoiakim). Prophecies Illustrated from the Work of the PotterJeremiah 18 gives and explains the figure of the potter’s clay, and tells of the effect upon the people. Jeremiah 19 gives and applies the figure of the potter’s broken vessel, while Jeremiah 20 describes the consequent sufferings of Jeremiah and his complaints.The outrage on the prophet committed by Pashur (Jeremiah 20:2) would certainly not have been permitted in Josiah’s time. On the other... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 18:1-23

1-17. Figure of the potter’s clay.3. 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 conformed to his ideal, God revealed to me the manner in which He is able to mould at His will the nations. At the same time I realised that man may render God’s... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 18:6

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 18:6

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 18:6

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 18:1-23

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 18:6

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 18:6

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 18:1-12

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 18:5-6

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 18:1-18

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 18:1-23

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