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John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 2:7

Verse 7 He afterwards adds, And I brought you in, etc. Here Jeremiah introduces God as the speaker; for God had, as with his hand stretched forth, brought in the children of Abraham into the possession of the promised land, which they did not get, as it is said in Psalms 44:3, by their own power and by their own sword; for though they had to fight with many enemies, yet it was God that made them victorious. He could then truly say, that they did not otherwise enter the land than under his... read more

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John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 2:8

Verse 8 God assails here especially the teachers and those to whom was committed the power of ruling the people. It often happens that the common people fall away, while yet some integrity remains in the rulers. But God shews here that such was the falling away among the whole community, that priests as well as prophets and all the chief men had departed from the true worship of God, and from all uprightness. Now, when Jeremiah thus rebukes the teachers and the priests and others, he does not... read more

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John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 2:9

Verse 9 The particle עוד oud, yet, or still, is not without weight; for the Prophet intimates, that if God had already punished the perfidy and wickedness of the people, he still retained whole his right to do so, as though he had said, “Think not that you have suffered all your punishment, though I have already severely visited your fathers for their wickedness and obstinacy; for as ye proceed in the same course, and as there is no moderation nor limits to your sins, I will not desist from... read more

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John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 2:10

Verse 10 Here, by a comparison, he amplifies the wickedness and ingratitude of his own nation, — that they had surpassed in levity all heathen nations; for he says that all nations so agreed in one religion, that each nation followed what it had received from its ancestors. How then was it that the God of Israel was repudiated and rejected by his own people? If there was such persistency in error, why did not truth secure credit among them who had been taught by the mouth of God himself, as... read more

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John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 2:11

Verse 11 Hence he says, Yea, pass over unto the islands; and then he adds, see whether there is a thing like this; that is, such a monstrous and execrable thing can nowhere be found. An explanation follows, No nation has changed its gods, and yet they are no gods; that is, religion among all nations continues the same, so that they do not now and then change their gods, but worship those who have been as it were handed down to them by their fathers. And yet, he says, they are no gods If it had... read more

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John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 2:12

Verse 12 When the Prophet saw that he had to do with besotted men, almost void of all reason, he turned to address the heavens: and it is a way of speaking, common in the Prophets, — that they address the heaven and the earth, which have no understanding, and leave men endued with reason and knowledge. This they were wont to do in hopeless cases, when they found no disposition to learn. Hence now the Prophet bids the heavens to be astonished and to be terrified and to be reduced as it were... read more

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John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 2:13

Verse 13 If a reason is given here why the Prophet had bidden the heavens to be astonished and terrified, then we must render the words thus, “For two evils have my people done:” but I rather think that the preceding verse is connected with the former verses. The Prophet had said, “Go to the farthest lands, and see whether any nation has changed its gods, while yet they are mere inventions.” I think then the subject is closed with the exclamation in the preceding verse, when the Prophet says,... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 2:1

Moreover ; literally, and. The introductory formula agrees with Jeremiah 1:4 . We have as it were two parallel prophecies ( Jeremiah 1:4 , etc; and Jeremiah 2:1 , etc.); both branching out of the original chronological statement in Jeremiah 1:2 (see Introduction). read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 2:1-3

Recollections of the happy past. It is pleasing to see how the prophet of judgment opens his first oracle with touching reminiscences of the early happy relations between God and his people. Thus the young man connects his new utterances with ancient experience and the old well-tried principles of spiritual religion. Thus, too, he leads the way from thoughts of God's goodness and memories of early devotion to a right condition of reflectiveness and tenderness of heart, in which the... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 2:1-8

Israel's desertion of Jehovah viewed in the light of the past. Desertion rather than apostasy is the word by which to describe the offence charged against Israel in this chapter. Apostasy from principle is too abstract and unemotional a way of putting the thing. The spectacle presented to us is that of one person deserting another in the basest and most ungrateful way. It is a desertion without excuse, aggravated by every circumstance which can aggravate it. And now Jehovah sends his... read more

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 2:7

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 2:8

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 2:9

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 2:10

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 2:11

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 2:12

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 2:13

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 2:1

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 2:1-3

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 2:1-8

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