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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 6:27

I have set thee for a tower and a fortress - Dr. Blayney translates, I have appointed thee to make an assay among my people. The words refer to the office of an assayer of silver and gold; and the manner of assaying here intended is by the cupel , a flat broad iron ring filled with the ashes of burnt bones. To separate the alloy from the silver they add a portion of lead; and when all is fused together, and brought into a state of ebullition, the cupel absorbs the lead, and with it the... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 6:10

Verse 10 The Prophet here shews there was no reason for him to labor any longer in trying to reform the people, for he spoke to the deaf. He had said before, according to our lecture yesterday, that God was still ready to be reconciled to the Jews, if they repented; but now, referring to himself, he says that his words were wholly lost. Hence he asks a question as respecting a thing strange or unexpected. To whom, he says, shall I speak? and to whom shall I protest? He had indeed, as we found... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 6:11

Verse 11 The prophet here rises higher; for it was not enough simply to set forth the truth to refractory men, but it was necessary to stimulate them even sharply, and sometimes to wound them, for they could not otherwise be roused, so great was their hardness. Hence the Prophet proceeds in the same strain with what we observed yesterday; and he declares that he was full of the indignation of God. This may be taken passively and actively, — that the Prophet was indignant with holy zeal, because... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 6:12

Verse 12 One kind of vengeance only he mentions, — that the Jews would be deprived of their land, which they thought would ever remain in peace to them. Inasmuch as it had been said, “This is my rest for ever, here will I dwell,” (Psalms 132:14) they imagined that they could not be driven out of it: and they entertained the thought, that their dwelling in the land of Canaan was as certain as that of the sun and moon in the heavens. As then they deceived themselves by this foolish confidence,... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 6:13

Verse 13 The Prophet now again declares, that it was nothing strange that God resolved to deal with so much severity with that people, and to execute on them extreme vengeance; for no part was whole and sound, but impiety had pervaded all ranks. It might, indeed, be ascribed to the young, as well as to the old, for he says, From the small to the great; but I prefer to understand the first clause of the poor and the lower orders, and the second of the higher ranks, who excelled in power and... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 6:14

Verse 14 This is to be applied to the prophets and priests alone; they not only corrupted the people by their bad example, but also shook off every fear of God, and by their impostures and false boasting took away every regard and respect for the teaching of the true prophets. He then says, that they healed to no purpose, or with levity or slightness, (175) the wound of the people He says, by way of concession, that they had healed the wounds of the people: but it was no cure, when the evil was... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 6:15

Verse 15 Jeremiah turns now his discourse to the whole people. In the last verse he reproved only the priests and the prophets; he now speaks more generally, and says, that they had put off all shame. “Behold,” he says, “they are sufficiently proved guilty, their wickedness is manifest, and yet there is no shame. Their disgrace is visible to heaven and earth; angels and all mortals are witnesses of their corruption; but they have such a meretricious front that they are touched by no sense of... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 6:16

Verse 16 The Prophet teaches us here that the fault of the people could not be extenuated as though they had sinned through ignorance; for they had been warned more than necessary by God. The same sentiment is found in Isaiah, “This is your rest; but they would not hear.” (Isaiah 28:12.) But our Prophet more at large condemns the Jews; for God had commanded them to stand in the ways, to look and to inquire respecting all the old paths. He uses a similitude: and we ought not to doubt... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 6:17

Verse 17 This is an explanation of the last verse, yet not simply so; for the Prophet by a similitude aggravates the obstinacy of the people, who were not only deaf to the Prophet’s admonitions, but would not be roused by the sound of the trumpet, nor even attend to it. The sound of the trumpet ought to have penetrated into their minds more than anything else for two reasons, — because it was louder than any voice of man, — and also, because we do not usually hear the trumpet sounding, except... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 6:18

Verse 18 He turns now to address the nations, which had never heard anything of true religion. But the design of the apostrophe was, to make the Jews ashamed of their insensibility and deafness, for more attention and understanding were found among heathen nations. This was surely very great shame: the Jews had been plainly taught by the Law and by the Prophets, God had continued morning and evening to repeat the same things to them, that the nations, who had never heard the prophets and to... read more

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 6:27

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 6:10

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 6:11

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 6:12

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 6:13

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 6:14

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 6:15

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 6:16

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 6:17

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 6:18

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