Jeremiah 38:1
_And Phassur, the violent priest, chap. xx. 1. --- People, who might come to the entry of the prison._... [ Continue Reading ]
_And Phassur, the violent priest, chap. xx. 1. --- People, who might come to the entry of the prison._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Safe. Hebrew, "a booty," chap. xxi. 9. --- Septuagint, "like a thing found." (Calmet) --- The Hebrew idiom implies that he shall most surely live. Voluntary offerings prevent eternal misery. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Lawful. This is a compliment, or Sedecias complains indirectly that they had only left him the name of king. He grieved at the treatment of the prophet. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Mire, up to the neck; so that he would soon have been smothered. (Josephus, Antiquities x. 10.)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Eunuch. Officer over 30, ver. 10. (Haydock) --- He was afterwards rewarded, chap. xxxix. 15. (Calmet) --- God moves some to pity the distressed, till he recompense their patience. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_City. It was useless, therefore, to add the torment of the dungeon, since he must soon have perished. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Arms. He was probably naked. (Sanctius)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Third, or officers of the guard's gate, leading from the palace to the temple, 4 Kings xi. 19. (Calmet) --- Hebrew hashelishi; (Haydock) the third denotes also an officer of the army._... [ Continue Reading ]
_King. He was at Reblatha. Though an usurper, he had claims upon Sedecias, whom he had appointed ruler, on his swearing to be faithful and to pay tribute. The prophet's advice was just. (Calmet) --- Even conditional prophecies are certain, and the king would have been treated differently if he had c... [ Continue Reading ]
_Jews. Traitors, whom Sedecias had perhaps treated ill. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER XXXVIII.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Say. At parting, bewailing thy blindness, which has entailed misery upon all. (Haydock) --- Of peace. That is, thy false friends, promising thee peace and happiness, and by their evil counsels involving thee in misery. (Challoner) --- Mire. He alludes to his own treatment, (Calmet) which he had rec... [ Continue Reading ]
_There. This he had actually done, chap. xxxvii. 19. He perhaps renewed the petition, at this interview, to satisfy the king. (Haydock) --- We may conceal the truth, but must never speak what is false. (Calmet) --- "In a matter, says Puffendorf, which I am not obliged to declare to another, if I can... [ Continue Reading ]