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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 51:17

Every man is brutish by his knowledge - He is brutish for want of real knowledge; and he is brutish when he acknowledges that an idol is any thing in the world. These verses, from fifteen to nineteen, are transcribed from Jeremiah 10:12-16 . read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 51:8

Verse 8 The Prophet now declares that the fall of Babylon would be sudden, that the faithful might understand that God could accomplish in one moment what he had decreed. For when the prophets spoke of God’s judgments, the people questioned among themselves, how could that be which surpassed the common ideas of men. That men, therefore, might not estimate God’s power according to their own thoughts, he introduces this word, suddenly; as though he had said, that God had no need of warlike... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 51:9

Verse 9 The Prophet assumes different characters; he speaks here in the person of those who of themselves brought help to the Babylonians. And many, no doubt, would have been ready to assist them, had King Belshazzar wished to accept aid; and we know also, that the city had a large army. He compares, then, the nations subject to the Babylonians, and also the hired and foreign soldiers, to physicians, as though he had said, “Babylon has been, with great care, healed.” As when a great prince is... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 51:10

Verse 10 The Prophet here addresses the faithful, and especially shows, that the ruin of Babylon would be a sure evidence of God’s paternal favor towards his Church. And it was no common consolation to the faithful, in their extreme miseries, to know, that so dear and precious to God was their salvation, that he would by no means spare the Babylonians, whom the whole world regarded as half gods; for, as I have said, the power of that monarchy filled the minds of men with astonishment. When the... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 51:11

Verse 11 These words might have been addressed to the Medes as well as to the Babylonians. If the latter meaning be approved, that is, that the Prophet addresses the Babylonians, the words are a taunt, as though he had said, that they were to no purpose spending their labors in preparing their armies, because God would be stronger than they, and that the Medes would carry on war under his banner and authority. Nor would what I have also stated, be unsuitable, that is, that the Prophet bids the... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 51:12

Verse 12 These words seem to have been addressed to the Chaldeans rather than to the Medes or the Persians, as some expound them; for this is favored by the context; for as he bids them first to raise a standard on the walls, so he adds, Increase the watch, which refers to the citizens of Babylon, and then he says, set the watchmen All this cannot apply to the Persians and the Medes, but must be referred to the besieged, as being most suitable to them. I do not then doubt but that the Prophet... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 51:13

Verse 13 The word שכנתי, shekenti, is to be taken here for שכנת, shekenet, a dweller; and the passage is more clear when we take it as the title of Babylon. And he says that she was a dweller among waters, because the Euphrates not only flowed by the city, (and we know that it was a very large river,) but it surrounded it; and it, was indeed divided above Babylon into many streams, so that it made as it were many islands, and thus access to the city was more difficult. This circumstance served... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 51:14

Verse 14 The Prophet more fully confirms what he had said by introducing God as making an oath; and it is the most solemn manner of confirmation when God swears by his own name. But he speaks of God in the language of men when he says that he swears by his own soul; for it is a kind of protestation when men swear by their own souls, as though they laid down or pledged their own life. Whoever then swears by his own soul, means that as his own life is dear to him, he thus lays it down as a... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 51:15

Verse 15 The Prophet commends here, as I have already said, in high terms, the power of God; but we must bear in mind his purpose, for abrupt sentences would be otherwise uninteresting. His object was to encourage the Jews to entertain hope; for they were not to judge of Babylon according to its splendor, which dazzled the eyes of all; nor were they to measure by their own notions what God had testified, he bids the faithful to raise all their thoughts above the world, and to behold with... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 51:16

Verse 16 This, then, is the reason why the Prophet, after having briefly touched on what we have seen, adds, as evidences of God’s power and wisdom, those things which appear to us in their various changes. He then says, that by his voice alone he gives abundance of waters in the heavens, and then that he raises vapors from the extremity of the earth, that he creates lightnings and the rain, which yet seem to be contrary things. At last he says, that he brings the winds out of his treasures... read more

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 51:17

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 51:8

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 51:9

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 51:10

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 51:11

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 51:12

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 51:13

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 51:14

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 51:15

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 51:16

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