Acts 26:19; John 15:14; Jonah 1:3
The wheels - literally, “the two wheels.” The lower one was worked by the feet to give motion to the upper one, which was a flat disc or plate of...
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 con...
Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels. He wrought a work on the wheels - אל האבנים al haabnayim, upon...
On the wheels— Upon the stones. This is the literal signification of עלאּהאבנים al haabnaiim, which the LXX. also render επι των λιθων. There c...
Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels. Wheels, х haa'aabªnaayim ( H70 )] - literally, 'on...
1-17. Figure of the potter's clay.
The potter's house ] Clay from which pottery was made was found S. of Jerusalem: cp. Zechariah 11:13 ; Matthew 27:10 . The potter teaches Jeremiah...
He wrought a work on the wheels. — Literally, the two wheels. The nature of the work is described more graphically in Ecclus. xxxviii. 29, 30. Th...
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 ther...
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 pre...
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 Chr...
Then I went down to the potter's house ,.... He did as the Lord commanded him; he was obedient to the divine will; he went to hear what the Lord had...
Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels. Ver. 3. Then I went down to the potter's house.] a God's co...
The word which came to Jeremiah , &c. We have here the beginning of a new discourse of Jeremiah, which, if introduced in its proper place, as we...
The Sovereign Prerogative of God; Divine Goodness and Equity. B. C. 600....
Jeremiah yields a present and free obedience to the command of God, though he did not know God's meaning in it, and findeth the potter at work upon...
The Lesson Of The Patient Potter ( Jeremiah 18:1-10 ). In one of the most beautiful illustrations in the Old Testament YHWH illustrates His readin...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.— 1. Chronology of the Chapter. Early in Jehoiakim’s reign (See Chronological Note on Section 19–27 of previous chap...
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 m...
Jeremiah 18:3-4 (with Jeremiah 19:1-2 ; Jeremiah 19:10-11 ) I. There is a Divine ideal possible for every man. God has not made any man simpl...
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 degradatio...
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 t...
EXPOSITION This chapter is the introduction of a group of prophecies (extending to Jeremiah 25:1-24 .) of various dates; their sequence has evi...
The Parable of the Potter
Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels, literally, "on the disks," for the potter's lathe consisted of...
3 Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.a