“ Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying, ”
The Potter and the Clay. The potter ( Jeremiah 18:1-4 ) moulding his clay on the upper stone, which he makes revolve by his feet resting on the connected lower stone, is compared with Yahweh in His...
Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying, No JFB commentary on this verse.
1-17. Figure of the potter's clay.
CHAPTER XI THE DIVINE POTTER Jeremiah 18:1-23 JEREMIAH goes down into the Lower Town, or the valley between the upper and lower city; and there his attention is arrested by a potter sitting at...
We now come to the second series of messages before the fall of Jerusalem (18-20), which consists of declarations of God's absolute supremacy. In preparation for this, Jeremiah was sent to the house...
Reader! Was not our nature marred by sin after it came out of the hands of our Almighty Potter? Did the Lord throw it away? No! He new made it in Christ Jesus. Oh! what numberless, sweet instructions...
Then the word of the Lord came unto me, saying. While he was in the potter's house, and after he had observed his manner of working, and the change he had made in his work, the Lord spoke to him, a...
Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying, Ver. 5. Then came the word of the Lord unto me. ] See Jeremiah 18:1 . To the visible word God always addeth the audible; as in the two sacraments.
The Sovereign Prerogative of God; Divine Goodness and Equity. B. C. 600. 1 The word whic...
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The Lesson Of The Patient Potter ( Jeremiah 18:1-10 ). In one of the most beautiful illustrations in the Old Testament YHWH illustrates His readiness ever to show mercy in the lesson of the patien...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.— 1. Chronology of the Chapter. Early in Jehoiakim’s reign (See Chronological Note on Section 19–27 of previous chapter). Probably about two years later than that mes...
Jeremiah 18:1-6 Consider what Jeremiah's business was, and how the potter might help him in understanding and performing it. I. Jeremiah sees a man engaged in a task to which he is devoting all h...
Jeremiah 18:6 . As the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in my hand. The sense is given in the next words; the exaltation, or the degradation of a nation, is wholly with the Lord. If they, u...
Go down to the potter’s house. The potter and the clay (with Romans 9:19-24 ):--The potter and the clay! Is not that parable the germ of all that is most oppressive in the “terrible decree” of...
EXPOSITION This chapter is the introduction of a group of prophecies (extending to Jeremiah 25:1-24 .) of various dates; their sequence has evidently not been determined by chronological consid...
The Parable of the Potter