Pridie Roxy
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Pridie Roxy
wrote a note on Ezekiel 1:6 ESV
the four living creatures of Revelation 4:7 were each different from the other: one like a man, one like a lion, one like an ox, and one like an eagle, and these four are combined here in each one of the cherubim (Ezekiel 1:10). Man is the head of the whole animal creation, the lion of wild beasts, the ox of the domestic animals, and the eagle of the birds … Expand
May 2
Pridie Roxy
wrote a note on Jeremiah 40:1 ESV
Here is an apparent discrepancy with the account in Jeremiah 39:14. The brevity of the latter seems to account for it. No doubt the more precise statement in our passage is to be followed. After the capture of the city, a number of captives, including Jeremiah, were probably conducted to Ramah (see on Jeremiah 31:15), where they had to wait for the royal decision as to their fate … Expand
Apr 19
Pridie Roxy
wrote a note on Jeremiah 33:16 ESV
It will be noticed that, while this reproduces the language of Jeremiah 23:6, it does so with a remarkable difference. There the title, "The Lord our Righteousness," is given to the future King, and the passage has accordingly been used as a proof of the full divinity of the Christ, who is that King. Here it is given to the city, and, so given, can only mean that that name will be, as it were, the motto and watchword of her being. She will be a city marked by a righteousness which will be the gift of Jehovah; He will inscribe that name on her banners. … Expand
Apr 17
Pridie Roxy
wrote a note on Jeremiah 32:1 ESV
We are carried over a period of six years from the prophecy of Jeremiah 28:1 to B.C. 589, when the treacherous and intriguing policy of Zedekiah had provoked Nebuchadnezzar to besiege Jerusalem in the ninth year of the king of Judah's reign.It would appear from Jeremiah 37:15; Jeremiah 38:26, both of an earlier date than this chapter, that he had previously been confined in the house of Jonathan the scribe as a private prison, and that the king had removed him thence with a view to consulting him on the probable issue of the siege. … Expand
Apr 16
Pridie Roxy
wrote a note on Jeremiah 31:29 ESV
"Both Ezekiel and Jeremiah felt that the time was come when, even at the risk of a seeming contradiction to words clothed with a Divine authority, the other aspect of God's government had to be asserted in all its fulness: and therefore they lay stress on the truth that each man is responsible for his own acts, and for those alone, and that the law of the inheritance of evil (what we have learnt to call the law of heredite) leaves untouched the freedom of man's will" … Expand
Apr 12
Pridie Roxy
wrote a note on Jeremiah 31:15 ESV
Ramah.--The sharp contrast between this and the exulting joy of the previous verse shows that we are entering on a new section which repeats in altered form the substance of the foregoing, presenting in succession the same pictures of present woe and future gladness.The passage has gained a special significance as being cited by St. Matthew (Matthew 2:18), as fulfilled in Herod's massacre of the infants of Bethlehem. … Expand
Apr 12
Pridie Roxy
wrote a note on Jeremiah 29:25 ESV
The letters were probably sent through the envoys named in Jeremiah 29:3 on their return from Babylon. Their object was to urge Zephaniah, who appears in 2Kings 25:18 as the Sagan, or second priest, to exercise his authority to restrain Jeremiah from prophesying, and to punish him as a false prophet.The part taken by Zephaniah in acting for the king when he wished to consult Jeremiah (Jeremiah 21:1), and imploring his intercession (Jeremiah 37:3), makes it probable that he endeavoured to maintain a neutral Gamaliel-like position between the two parties, and had seemed so lukewarm and temporising that he was open to the influence of threats" … Expand
Apr 10
Pridie Roxy
wrote a note on Jeremiah 27:20 ESV
"when he carried away captive Jeconiah, the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem; of which see 2 Kings 24:12."
Apr 10
Pridie Roxy
wrote a note on Jeremiah 23:36 ESV
he misused term was no longer to be applied to the messages of Jehovah. If men continued to apply it to the words of their own heart, they would find it a "burden" in another sense (the prophet plays once more on the etymology of the word) too heavy to be borne. This would be the righteous punishment of the reckless levity with which they had treated the sacred Name which Jeremiah reproduces in all the amplitude of its grandeur. … Expand
Apr 8
Pridie Roxy
wrote a note on Jeremiah 23:5 ESV
A righteous Branch; rather, a righteous Plant: the root means "to bud, or sprout." This is the first time in which the title the Plant is unmistakably applied to the Messianic King. there is something extraordinary about him, for it is needful that Jehovah himself should "raise" this Plant from the almost worn-out stock of David. It is also the word used by Zechariah (Zechariah 3:8; Zechariah 6:12), as a proper name of the Messiah … Expand
Apr 8
Pridie Roxy
wrote a note on Jeremiah 22:24 ESV
The name of this prince appears in three forms :—(1) The abbreviated Coniah, as here and in Jeremiah 37:1 : this was probably the name by which he was known before he was proclaimed as king. (2) Jeconiah, with slight variations, in Jeremiah 24:1; Jeremiah 27:20, and elsewhere. (3) Jehoiachin, also with varied spelling—probably the regal title assumed on his accession (Jeremiah 52:31; Ezekiel 1:2) We are informed, (2 Kings 24:15,) that Nebuchadnezzar carried away Jehoiachin, that is, Jeconiah or Coniah, to Babylon, and his mother, and his wives, … Expand
Apr 7
Pridie Roxy
wrote a note on Jeremiah 22:13 ESV
Here also is the doom of Jehoiakim. No doubt it is lawful for princes and great men to build, beautify, and furnish houses; but those who enlarge their houses, and make them sumptuous, need carefully to watch against the workings of vain-glory. He built his houses by unrighteousness, with money gotten unjustly. And he defrauded his workmen of their wages. God notices the wrong done by the greatest to poor servants and labourers, and will repay those in justice, who will not, in justice, pay those whom they employ. … Expand
Apr 7
Pridie Roxy
wrote a note on Jeremiah 20:7 ESV
Jeremiah refers to the hesitation he originally felt to accepting the prophetic office.This is a very harsh and improper translation of the prophet’s words, which properly and literally signify, Thou hast persuaded me, and I was persuaded. Some, to make the sense more clear, supply a few words, and make the whole sentence stand thus; O Lord, thou hast persuaded me to carry thy commands to thy people, and I was persuaded: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed — That is, “It was sore against my will, that I undertook the prophetic office, which I would gladly have declined, chap. Jeremiah 1:6. … Expand
Apr 7
Pridie Roxy
wrote a note on Jeremiah 13:18 ESV
"For the fulfillment, see 2 Kings 24:15. After a reign of three months, the young prince and his mother were carried to Babylon."
Apr 5
Pridie Roxy
wrote a note on Jeremiah 3:16 ESV
"the ark shall no longer the center of religious worship. The ark is represented in the Law as the throne of Jehovah, who was "enthroned upon the cherubim" on the lid of the ark, thus the temple is called the "dwelling-places" of Jehovah (e.g. Psalm 46:4; Psalm 84:1). Now, in the Messianic period the consciousness of Jehovah's presence was to be so widely spread, at any rate in the center of God's kingdom, the holy city, that the ark would no longer be thought of; it would be, if not destroyed (we know, as a matter of fact, that the ark was destroyed in some unrecorded way), yet at least become utterly unimportant. Jerusalem would then naturally succeed to the title "Jehovah's throne"". … Expand
Mar 31
Pridie Roxy
wrote a note on 2 Kings 23:16 ESV
"His accidentally "spying the sepulchers" gave Josiah the thought of completing his desecration of Bethel by having bones brought from them and burnt upon the altar - whereby he exactly accomplished the old prophecy (1 Kings 13:2), which was not at all in his mind. And sent, end took the bones out of the sepulchers, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it (see the comment on ver. 14), according to the word of the Lord which the men of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words; rather, who prophesied these things. The reference is to 1 Kings 13:2, and the meaning is, not that Josiah acted as he did in order to fulfill the prophecy, but that in thus acting he unconsciously fulfilled it." … Expand
Mar 30
Pridie Roxy
wrote a note on 2 Kings 23:13 ESV
"As it is not said that they were pulled down, these high places may have been merely sacred sites on the mountain, consisting of a levelled surface of rock, with holes scooped in them for receiving libations, &c. Such sites have been found in Palestine; and it is hardly conceivable that chapels erected by Solomon for the worship of Ashtoreth, Chemosh, and Milcom, would have been spared by such a king as Hezekiah, who even did away with the high places dedicated to Jehovah (2Kings 18:3)" … Expand
Mar 30
Pridie Roxy
"The prophet describes, as though himself an eyewitness, the army advancing against Nineve. Nahum 2:4-5 describe the state of the city while sustaining this siege"
Mar 29
Pridie Roxy
wrote a note on Nahum 1:12 ESV
"Though I have afflicted thee. The Lord addresses Judah, referring to the oppression of Judaea by the Assyriaus in the times of Ahaz and Hezekiah (2 Kings 16:18; 2 Chronicles 28:20, etc.; 32.). I will afflict thee no more; according to the promise in ver. 9. This is further confirmed in what follows" … Expand
Mar 29
Pridie Roxy
"The effect of Jonah's preaching had been only temporary; the reformation was partial and superficial; and now God's long suffering was wearied out, and the time of punishment was to come." … Expand
Mar 29