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THE HOLY BIBLE
Diligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek, and Other Editions in Divers Languages
THE OLD TESTAMENT First Published by the English College at Douay A.D. 1609 & 1610
and
THE NEW TESTAMENT First Published by the English College at Rheims A.D. 1582
With Annotations
The Whole Revised and Diligently Compared with the Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner A.D. 1749-1752
THE PROPHECY OF JEREMIAS
Jeremias was a priest, a native of Anathoth, a priestly city in the tribe of Benjamin: and was sanctified from his mother's womb, to be a prophet of God; which office he began to execute when he was yet a child in age. He was in his whole life, according to the signification of his name, Great before the Lord; and a special figure of Jesus Christ, in the persecutions he underwent for discharging his duty; in his charity for his persecutors; and in the violent death he suffered at their hands: it being an ancient tradition of the Hebrews, that he was stoned to death by the remnant of the Jews who had retired into Egypt.
The time, and the calling, of Jeremias: his prophetical visions. God encourages him.
God expostulates with the Jews for their ingratitude and infidelity.
Carmel... That is, a fruitful, plentiful land.
Borith... An herb used to clean clothes, and take out spots and dirt.
God invites the rebel Jews to return to him, with a promise to receive them: he foretells the conversion of the Gentiles.
And admonition to sincere repentance, and circumcision of the heart, with threats of grievous punishment to those that persist in sin.
The judgments of God shall fall upon the Jews for their manifold sins.
The evils that threaten Jerusalem. She is invited to return, and walk in the good way, and not to rely on sacrifices without obedience.
The temple of God shall not protect a sinful people, without a sincere conversion. The Lord will not receive the prayers of the prophet for them: because they are obstinate in their sins.
Queen of heaven... That is, the moon, which they worshipped under that name.
I commanded them not... Viz., such sacrifices as the Jews at this time offered, without obedience; which was the thing principally commanded: so that in comparison with it, the offering of the holocausts and sacrifices was of small account.
Other evils that shall fall upon the Jews for their impenitence.
The prophet laments the miseries of his people: and their sins, which are the cause of them. He exhorts them to repentance.
Neither stars nor idols are to be feared, but the great Creator of all things. The chastisement of Jerusalem for her sins.
The way of a man is not his... The meaning is, that notwithstanding man's free will, yet he can do no good without God's help, nor evil without his permission. So that, in the present case, all the evils which Nabuchodonosor was about to bring upon Jerusalem, could not have come but by the will of God.
The prophet proclaims the covenant of God: and denounces evils to the obstinate transgressors of it. The conspiracy of the Jews against him, a figure of their conspiracy against Christ.
Sabaoth... That is, of hosts or armies, a name frequently given to God in the scriptures.-Ibid. Thy revenge... This was rather a prediction of what was to happen, with an approbation of the divine justice, than an imprecation.
The prosperity of the wicked shall be but for a short time. The desolation of the Jews for their sins. Their return from their captivity.
Under the figure of a linen girdle is foretold the destruction of the Jews. Their obstinacy in sin brings all miseries upon them.
A grievous famine: and the prophet's prayer on that occasion. Evils denounced to false prophets. The prophet mourns for his people.
God is determined to punish the Jews for their sins. The prophet's complaint, and God's promise to him.
Shall iron be allied, etc... Shall the iron, that is, the strength of Juda, stand against the stronger iron of the north, that is, of Babylon: or enter into an alliance upon equal footing with it? No certainly: but it must be broken by it.
Do not defend me in thy patience... That is, let not thy patience and longsuffering, which thou usest towards sinners, keep thee from making haste to my assistance.
The prophet is forbid to marry. The Jews shall be utterly ruined for their idolatry: but shall at length be released from their captivity, and the Gentiles shall be converted.
For their obstinacy in sin the Jews shall be led captive. He is cursed that trusteth in flesh. God alone searcheth the heart, giving to every one as he deserves. The prophet prayeth to be delivered from his enemies, and preacheth up the observance of the sabbath.
Tamaric... A barren shrub that grows in the driest parts of the wilderness.
Let them be confounded, etc... Such expressions as these in the writings of the prophets, are not to be understood as imprecations proceeding from malice or desire of revenge: but as prophetic predictions of evils that were about to fall upon impenitent sinners, and approbations of the ways of divine justice.
As the clay in the hand of the potter, so is Israel in God's hand. He pardoneth penitents, and punisheth the obstinate. They conspire against Jeremias, for which he denounceth to them the miseries that hang over them.
Remember, etc... This is spoken in the person of Christ, persecuted by the Jews, and prophetically denouncing the evils that should fall upon them in punishment of their crimes.
Under the type of breaking a potter's vessel, the prophet foresheweth the desolation of the Jews for their sins.
The prophet is persecuted: he denounces captivity to his persecutors, and bemoans himself.
Phassur... This name signifies increase and principality: and therefore is here changed to Magor-Missabib, or fear on every side: to denote the evils that should come upon him in punishment of his opposing the word of God.
Thou hast deceived, etc... The meaning of the prophet, is not to charge God with any untruth; but what he calls deceiving, was only the concealing from him, when he accepted of the prophetical commission, the greatness of the evils which the execution of that commission was to bring upon him.
Let me see, etc... This prayer proceeded not from hatred or ill will, but zeal of justice.
Cursed be the day, etc... In these, and the following words of the prophet, there is a certain figure of speech to express with more energy the greatness of the evils to which his birth had exposed him.
The prophet's answer to the messengers of Sedecias, when Jerusalem was besieged.
To thee that dwellest, etc... He speaks to Jerusalem, confiding in the strength of her situation upon rocks, surrounded with a deep valley.
An exhortation both to king and people to return of God. The sentence of God upon Joachaz, Joakim, and Jechonias.
Go down, etc... The contents of this chapter are of a more ancient date than those of the foregoing chapter: for the order of time is not always observed in the writings of the prophets.
Prepare... Literally, sanctify.
Weep not for him that is dead, etc... He means the good king Josias, who by death was taken away, so as not to see the miseries of his country. Ibid. Him that goeth away... Viz., sellum, alias Joachaz, who was carried captive into Egypt.
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