City, £ 2nd terrours upon the city 9. Foungnen Prophet ipeaking in the Name of that God who calleth ſpoiling,6eC Things that are not as it they were, ſti!} contiqueth his Stile, rs & ſpeaking of Things to corre as if preſent. In Fehojakim's time go _— od of as fuck plenty of Widows ; they were multiplied Mother hen the City was befieged and taken in Zedekzab's time, to a and the great number ; hyferbolically compared to the Sands of the Sea. Toung men. þ There is a great Variety amonglt Interpreters, as to their Sence of this Phraſe, about which, thole that are curious may conſult the Engliſh Annetatiens upon this Verſe. By the Spoiler at Noon-day is meant: Nebuchadneqqar, in the Senſe of the beſt Interpreters, who came nut like a Thief who cometh by nighe to rob and to ſpoil, but with an Army 1n the day time: The Que- ftion only is about thoſe Words againſt zhe Mother of the Toung men, The Hebrew Word, which our Tranflation renders Toung Men, is DA, bachur, which properly ſignifies a chsice Man, or
a Perton choſen, from the Hebrew Verb which fignifieth to chooſe ; ſo that it may as well be Tranſlated, the Mothey of the choſen, as the Mother of the Toung Men, becauſe Young men are looked upon as the Chotce Men, whether for Beauty, or Strength and Ability for any thing, the Word often fignthes a Young-man, Deut. 32. 25. 2 Sam. 6.1. Cant. 5.15. Pſal. 148. 12. Iſ4. 23.4. Exch. 9.6. and in many other Texts. Some will have the Senſe ( as in our Margent ) againſt te Mother and the Toung Man, meaning by the Young-man Nebuchadnezqar, ana by the Mother Feruſalem. The Jews are in the Canticles called the Davghters of Hiruſa- lem. and Hiernſalem which # above, 15 by the Apoſtle called the Mother of us all. The Hebrew Word is 1n the fingular Number ; how we tranſlate it Toung-men I underſtand not. Pagnine
men have lent to me on uſury, yer every one of © them doth curſe me 7.
m The prophet in this Verſe cannot be excuſed from a grea: meaſure of Paſſion and Humane Infirmity ; He almoſt curieth the day of his Birth,denouncing himſelf a wotul,miſerable Man ro be born a Man of Strifeand Contention to the whole World, tha!
his Judgments; which Denunciations, how true ſoever, and the truth of which they atcerward did effeCtually find, yet they were not able to bear, and therefore they ſtrove with him, and con»
. tended againſt him ; yet it was not for his Sin. n Uſury was for«
bidden the Z-ws, Dezut. 23. 19. and fo was the more odious; but ſaith the Prophet, I have not followed that trade I have neither lent nor borrowed upon Uſury, I have done them no wrong, nor given them any occaſion againſt me, yet they will not be recon- ciled to me, but ſpeak of me all manner of evil; This was the Lot of the old Prophets, the Lot of Samuel, of Chriſt, of his Apoſtles,and of all the Faithfu], Miniſters of the Goſpel ever fince. Let them carry themſelves never ſo innocently and obligingly to People, yet it they will be tairhtul, and truly reveal unto Peo- ple the Mind and Will of God, that is enough to anger a People, whoſe W1lls are not ſubjugated to the Will of God, and they w1ll curſe them. !! Or,F wits
11 The LORD ſaid, Verily it ſhall be well with encreze rhe thy remnant o, verily || will cauſe the enemy to en- Enemy for treat thee well in the time of evil, and in the time of'%* affliction p. | |
o The latter Words of the Verſe expound the former ; tor by Remnant js here meant the Refidue or Remnant of Days that Jeremiah had yet to live, not the Remnant ot the People who ſhould come out of Batylon. g I will, by my Provicerce, 10 order it, that how cruelly and feverely ſoever the Enemy deals with thy Country-men yet he ſhall uſe thee kindly when he ſhall take the City. See the tulfiling of this Prophecy, Chap. 39.
11. and go. 3, 4.
12 Shall iron break the northern iron and the ſteel q ?
I Thang a great Variety among Interpreters as tothis Verſe, alſo ſome interpreting this as a Prophecy that none ſhould break the Prophet, whom God would make as the Northern Iron and Stee],whictiwas the hardeſt of all Iron, the Chalybes (from whom Steel had its Name Chalybs) being Northern People, and the mo:t !amous of any then known in the Worlp, for tempering Iron make it hard and tough: Others interpreting it, as denying that here ſhould ever be an Agreegeat berwixt the Jew, and the Chaldeans ; but to me, the Words of the next Verſe ſeem to give us the Senſe, that the Few. ſhould certainly be over-ru: and conquered by the Bzbylonians ; tor as the Northern Iroq an. Steel is the hardeſt, and no [ron could break that, ſo Go& having edged and hardned their Enemies the Cbaldezans, all, their Oppo ſition to them would fignitie nothing.
13 Thy ſubſtance and thy treaſures will I give to * @;.4; the* ſpoil without price 7, and 427 tor all thy !ins, 17. 4. even inall thy borders /. |
r All thy Riches and precions Things ſhall be ſpoiled, I wi.l have no regard, faith; God,to L.oje or Gaia 1n it, or tnere ſhall be no Price taken for the Redempcion of them; for f what tha!] be done,ſhall be by me done for 2!! the Sins which thou haſt been guiley of in a!l the parts of the Countr
Tranflates it El-#i the Mother of- the choſen, I do think that by the Mcther 1s meant Hzeruſa/em, and that Populi may be un- derſtood to Elefii, Hiervſales was the Mother of the Jewiſh People, or Fudez at leaſt, againſt whom, Nebuchadnez3ar the Spoiler, at Noon-day, was ſeit ; and we know that the Fews were Gui's Choſen P:57/8, q This laſt Clauſe is yet mot e ob(cure;
14 And I will make thee to pats with thine enee mics, intoa land which thou knowelt not. for a * fire *Deut. ;2, is kindled in mine anger, 72: ſhall bura upon *+ you tr.
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: As the former Verſe, ſo this alſo muſt be underſtood not of | che Prophet, tor he was not carried into Babylon, but of the Pe 0- pie, whole Captivity is threatned 1n this Place, and the cauſe ot i: declared, the Wrath of the Lord againſt them for their Sins, the Effects of which are compared to a fire which ſhould burn tem, tz OLORD, thou knoweſt «, remember me and vilit mew, and revenge me of my perſecutors -, take