And the prophets shall become wind, and the word [is] not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.
Ver. 13. And the prophets shall become wind.] All their threats and bugbear terms (devised on purpose to frighten silly people, who are no wiser than to believe them) shall come to nothing; they are but bullatae nugae, bruta fulmina, a bubbles of words, brute lightbolts; both they and their menaces shall vanish together, they shall blow over.
Thus shall it be done unto them.] The evils that they foretell shall befall themselves, not us; et nos male mulctabimus ipsos, and we will see them soundly punished for false prophets. Poor Jeremiah was ill-handled among them many times, as we shall see in sundry Chapter s following. Hoc fuit οιδακτρον, &c.
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