The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, so His Church sings in grateful acknowledgment of His grace, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love, therefore with loving-kindness have I drawn thee, giving them respite, preserving them from extinction. As He had done in delivering His people from the bondage of Egypt, so He intended to continue His mercy upon them.
Verse Jeremiah 31:3. _I HAVE LOVED THEE WITH AN EVERLASTING LOVE_] ואהבת עולם אהבתיך _veahabath olam ahabtich_, "and with the old love I have loved thee." "Also, with a love of long standing have I l...
OF OLD - From afar (margin). See Jeremiah 30:10. To the Jew God was enthroned in Zion, and thus when His mercy was shown unto the exiles in Assyria it came from a distant region 2Ch 6:20, 2 Chronicles...
CHAPTER 31 _ 1. The home-going of the nation (Jeremiah 31:1) _ 2. The joy of salvation (Jeremiah 31:10) 3. The preceding tribulation, sorrow and repentance (Jeremiah 31:15) 4. Assur
This prophecy of the restoration of the northern kingdom may belong, like ch. 3, to Jeremiah's early period. The northern Israelites shall be gathered from exile (the wilderness). Yahweh will appear f...
EVERLASTING LOVE. See notes on Isaiah 44:7....
Jeremiah 31:1. See introd. summary to the section. Jeremiah 31:1, virtually a repetition of Jeremiah 30:22, should be joined to the previous ch....
_The Lord appeared of old unto me_ It is best to take this as put in the mouth of the people themselves. _of old_ rather, as mg. FROM AFAR, as the same Hebrew word is rendered ch. Jeremiah 30:10. The...
DISCOURSE: 1068 GRACIOUS INFLUENCES THE FRUIT OF ELECTING LOVE Jeremiah 31:3. _The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love; therefore with loving-ki...
THE LORD HATH APPEARED OF OLD UNTO ME— _From afar off Jehovah appeared unto me._ These words, it is certain, were not spoken in reference to the same time that those were which go before. They may wel...
H. THE BLESSINGS OF RESTORATION Jeremiah 31:2-40 In this second major section of the Book of Consolation the focus is upon the blessings which those who return from exile will enjoy. Both Israel, the...
The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee. THE LORD HATH APPEARED OF OLD UNTO ME ... YEA, I HAV...
31:3 thee. (a-24) Or 'I have prolonged toward thee my goodness.'...
1-22. Jeremiah speaks of the restoration first of Israel (Ephraim, Jeremiah 31:2), then of Judah (Jeremiah 31:23.). Those who survive the sufferings of the captivity are promised a safe journey home....
In this v. the people are the speakers....
THE LORD HATH APPEARED OF OLD UNTO ME... — The Hebrew adverb more commonly refers to distance than to time. _From afar the Lord appeared unto me._ The thought is that of a deliverer who hears the cry...
מֵ רָחֹ֕וק יְהוָ֖ה נִרְאָ֣ה לִ֑י וְ אַהֲבַ֤ת
CHAPTER XXXI RESTORATION II THE NEW ISRAEL Jeremiah 23:3; Jeremiah 24:6; Jeremiah 30:1; Jeremiah 31:1;...
15-34, AN EVERLASTING LOVE Jeremiah 31:1-9 It is all-inclusive: _all the families of Israel_. It is patient under provocation: during forty years it bore with Israel. It has a drawing-power which ove...
Continuing, the Prophet dealt with the issues of restoration. He first described the restoration of the city. After affirming the ancient love of Jehovah for His people, he foretold the building of th...
The LORD appeared (d) of old to me, [saying], (e) I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee. (d) The people thus reason as though he were not so bene...
_Afar. He has seemed to despise me, (St. Jerome) or he has spoken to my ancestors. (Calmet) --- Chaldean, He has "manifested himself long ago to our fathers. Prophet, tell them I have," &c., Psalm xxx...
I do not presume to determine, but I venture to observe, that I conceive the former part of this verse is the language of the Church; and the latter the words of Jehovah. The Church having heard the L...
_‘LOVED WITH EVERLASTING LOVE’_ ‘I have loved thee with an everlasting love.’ Jeremiah 31:3 I. WE CANNOT ESTIMATE THE LENGTH OF GOD’S LOVE.—When did it begin to be? Long before I was born. Long bef...
The last part is commonly rendered, “I have therefore drawn thee in mercy;” but the sense is frigid and unsuitable. I therefore doubt not but that he, on the contrary, means, that the mercy of God wou...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 31 AND 32. But it would not be Judah only, to whom the prophecies of Jeremiah were addressed, that should be restored-all the families of Israel should enjoy...
THE LORD HATH APPEARED OF OLD UNTO ME, [SAYING],.... Either to the prophet, bidding him say to the church what follows, so Jarchi: or to Christ, who was from eternity with the Father; lay in his bosom...
The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, [saying], Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee. Ver. 3. _The Lord hath appeared of old unto me._] Th...
_The Lord hath appeared of old unto me_ The prophet here personifies the Jewish nation, the people spoken of in the foregoing verse, who are introduced as calling to mind how God, in times of old, had...
OF OLD: _ Heb._ from afar WITH LOVINGKINDNESS HAVE I DRAWN THEE: Or, have I extended lovingkindness unto thee...
1-9 God assures his people that he will again take them into covenant relation to himself. When brought very low, and difficulties appear, it is good to remember that it has been so with the church f...
The word SAYING being not in the original, hath given advantage to some to think that the first words are either the words of some of the people owning that the Lord indeed had of old appeared to and...
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AS THEY WERE OF OLD DELIVERED FROM EGYPT, SO ISRAEL ARE NOW AGAIN TO BE REDEEMED AND DELIVERED, SO THAT THEY MIGHT FIND REST BECAUSE OF YHWH'S LOVE FOR THEM (JEREMIAH 31:2). The reference back to the...
Jeremiah 31:3 I. Divine love is a fact; there can be no doubt of the teaching of the Scripture on this subject. The God of the Bible is a God of love, He is a Father in heaven. He cares for us, He wat...
Jeremiah 31:1. _At the same time, faith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people._ How divinely he talks, as only God can talk These people had rejected...
Jeremiah 31:1. At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people. Thus saith the LORD, The people which were left of the sword found grace...
Jeremiah 31:1. _At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people._ During the Israelites' banishment to Babylon, God's covenant with them...
CONTENTS: Israel in the last days. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: God will again at the end of the age take Israel into new covenant relation with Himself, from which they have for hundreds of years b...
Jeremiah 31:1. _At the same time,_ namely, as the last words of the preseding chapter, in the latter day. Here the subject is glorious, and the language sublime. Jeremiah 31:3. _I have loved thee with...
_I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee._ EVERLASTING LOVE I. Our once desolate and miserable condition by nature. Were we not captives? yea, bond...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 31:1 This chapter includes the most famous passage in Jeremiah 1:1, the promise of a new covenant (vv....
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—_Vide_ on chap. 30. These two Chapter s form an unbroken prophecy, “a triumphal hymn of Israel’s salvation.” The former chapter pledges the recovery from captivity of bo...
EXPOSITION JEREMIAH 31:1 The promise of Jeremiah 30:22 is expressly declared to apply to both sections of the nation. Jehovah thus solemnly declares his purpose of mercy, and dwells with special Mad...
This time shall we turn in our Bibles to Jeremiah 31:1-40. Now there are those who say that God has cast off Israel as a nation forever, and that all of the blessings, all of the covenants and all of...
1 John 4:19; 1 Peter 1:3; 2 Thessalonians 2:13; 2 Timothy 1:9;...