Jeremiah 27

This term, a servant of God or Christ, in the use of Scripture, is several ways applied. 1. It may be understood of any kind of subserviency to God's Will and secret counsels, or instrumentality in the execution of his decrees: so wicked men may be said to be God's servants, so…

"Indocti;" — "quelques gens n'entendans pas le propos," — "some people not understanding the design." persons ventured to strike out the repetition of it as superfluous; which, he tells us, ought not to have been done, because Jehoiakim, the father of king Jehoiakim, had the nam…

He has a hand in the bird-nests building (Psalm 104:17, 18). 4. The actings of the Lord are in great things, as the translation of kingdoms, dominions, and thrones (Daniel 4:32; Jeremiah 27:5, 6, 7). In all the rises and fallings of Princes, the stars of whatever magnitude (Isai…

Or in Revelation 13:3 ('All the world wondered after the beast'), which few would take as meaning every individual person on earth? That 'all nations,' an expression of equal breadth with 'the world,' is to be understood in like manner is apparent from Romans 1:5; Revelation 18:…

(5) Because, the Prophet Jeremiah did own the power of Zedekiah, who had turned aside to a false worship, and had despised the oath, which he had made to the King of Babylon (Ezekiel 17:16-17). Now hear I pray you, says the Prophet, O my Lord the King, let my supplication I pray…