George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Jeremiah 18:3
Wheel. Hebrew, "stones." Septuagint, "seats;" or "wheel." (Chaldean) (Exodus i. 16.) See Ecclesiasticus xxxviii. 32. (Calmet)
Wheel. Hebrew, "stones." Septuagint, "seats;" or "wheel." (Chaldean) (Exodus i. 16.) See Ecclesiasticus xxxviii. 32. (Calmet)
Verse Jeremiah 18:3. _HE WROUGHT A WORK ON THE WHEELS._] אל האבנים _al_ _haabnayim, upon the stones_, the potter's wheel being usually made of such; the spindle of the moving stone being placed on a...
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 wood, on which the potter laid the clay, and moulded i...
CHAPTER 18 The Potter and the Clay _ 1. In the potter's house and the message (Jeremiah 18:1) _ 2. The plot against the prophet and his prayer (Jeremiah 18:18) Jeremiah 18:1. He was comm
THE POTTER AND THE CLAY. The potter (Jeremiah 18:1) moulding his clay on the upper stone, which he makes revolve by his feet resting on the connected lower stone, is compared with Yahweh in His contro...
_the potter's house_ The likening (as in Jeremiah 18:6) of man to the clay and God to the potter was familiar. See on Jeremiah 18:4. The trade was a very early one. Thomson (_The Land and the Book_, p...
ON THE WHEELS— _Upon the stones._ This is the literal signification of עלאּהאבנים _al haabnaiim,_ which the LXX. also render επι των λιθων. There can be no doubt that the machine is intended, on which...
CHAPTER ELEVEN THE POTTER AND HIS VESSELS Jeremiah 18:1 to Jeremiah 20:18 Chapter s 18-20 are composed of various types of literature centering around the common theme of the potter's vessels. The f...
Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels. WHEELS, [ haa'aabªnaayim (H70)] - literally, 'on both stones.' The potter's horizontal lathe consisted of two r...
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 important lessons concerning the providential rule of th...
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. The potter sat moving one horizontal wheel with his fee...
וָ אֵרֵ֖ד בֵּ֣ית הַ יֹּוצֵ֑ר _וְ_†_הִנֵּה_†־_ה֛וּא_
CHAPTER XI THE DIVINE POTTER Jeremiah 18:1 JEREMIAH goes down into the Lower Town, or the valley between the upper and lower city; and there his attention is arrested by a potter sitting at work bef...
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 preparation for this, Jeremiah was sent to the house o...
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 Christ Jesus. Oh! what numberless, sweet instructions,...
In chapter 18 this principle is fully demonstrated before the people (Jeremiah 18:1-10). But the people in despair as to God, in the midst of their boldness in evil and in contempt of His marvellous p...
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 to say to him there, and to observe such things, fro...
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 commands must be obeyed without sciscitation. Jeremiah...
_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 have reason to think it is, was probably also, as well...
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 two horizontal wooden plates, the lower one larger...
THE PARABLE OF THE POTTER...
WHEELS: Or, frames or seats...
1-10 While Jeremiah looks upon the potter's work, God darts into his mind two great truths. God has authority, and power, to form and fashion kingdoms and nations as he pleases. He may dispose of us...
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 WHEELS or _frames_ which he formed his clay upon, to...
Jeremiah 18:3 down H3381 (H8799) potters H3335 (H8802) house H1004 was H2009 making H6213 (H8802) something...
THE LESSON OF THE PATIENT POTTER (JEREMIAH 18:1). In one of the most beautiful illustrations in the Old Testament YHWH illustrates His readiness ever to show mercy in the lesson of the patient potter....
Jeremiah 18:3 _(with Jeremiah 19:1; Jeremiah 19:10)_ I. There is a Divine ideal possible for every man. God has not made any man simply for destruction. He has an archetype or pattern before Him, whi...
Jeremiah 18:1 Consider what Jeremiah's business was, and how the potter might help him in understanding and performing it. I. Jeremiah sees a man engaged in a task to which he is devoting all his tho...
CONTENTS: Sign of the potter's house. Declaration of God's ways of dealing with nations. Jeremiah's complaint. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Jehovah has incontestable and irresistible abili...
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 degradation of a nation, is wholly with the Lord. If they, unde...
_Go down to the potter’s house._ THE POTTER AND THE CLAY (with Romans 9:19):--The potter and the clay! Is not that parable the germ of all that is most oppressive in the “terrible decree” of Calvinis...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. Early in Jehoiakim’s reign (See _Chronological Note_ on Section 19–27 of previous chapter). Probably about two years later than that messag...
EXPOSITION This chapter is the introduction of a group of prophecies (extending to Jeremiah 25:1.) of various dates; their sequence has evidently not been determined by chronological considerations. T...
Now in chapter 18: The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words. Then I went down to the potter's house...
Acts 26:19; John 15:14; Jonah 1:3...