Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Jeremiah 18:15
Vanity — Idols. Ancient paths — The ways wherein Noah, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and all the ancient patriarchs walked. To walk — In a way not cast up, not fit for God's people to walk in.
Vanity — Idols. Ancient paths — The ways wherein Noah, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and all the ancient patriarchs walked. To walk — In a way not cast up, not fit for God's people to walk in.
BECAUSE - “For.” Jeremiah returns to, and continues the words of, Jeremiah 18:13. VANITY - A word meaning “falsehood,” which signifies that the worship of idols is not merely useless but injurious. T...
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...
FORGOTTEN. Showing that the emphasis is on the leaving and forsaking of Jeremiah 18:14. VANITY. Used of idols. Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Subject)....
_For_ This continues the thought of the 13th _v_., Jeremiah 18:14 being parenthetic. _vanity_ lit. _unreality_, meaning idols, but a different word from that used in Jeremiah 2:5, where see notes. Her...
TO VANITY, AND THEY HAVE CAUSED THEM, &C.— _To idols, which have caused them,_ &c.]...
D. The Accusation Against the Nation Jeremiah 18:13-15 TRANSLATION (13) Therefore thus says the LORD: Ask now among the nations who has heard such things. An exceedingly horrible thing has the virgin...
Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up; BECAUSE...
1-17. Figure of the potter's clay....
VANITY] i.e. idols....
VANITY. — The word is not that commonly so translated (as in Jeremiah 2:5; Jeremiah 10:8; Ecclesiastes 1:2, _et al., q. 5_)_,_ but that which had been used of idols in...
כִּֽי ־שְׁכֵחֻ֥נִי עַמִּ֖י לַ † שָּׁ֣וְא יְקַטֵּ֑רוּ...
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...
Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways [from] the (e) ancient paths, to walk in paths, [in] a way not cast up; (e)...
_Ancient; followed by the patriarchs, chap. vi. 16._...
What a striking expostulation is in the opening of these verses? The Lord sends his people to ask of the heathen, among whom it was never known, of such apostasy from their dunghill gods, as Israel ma...
We now perceive the meaning of this passage. It is doubtless natural for all to be satisfied with present blessings, especially when nothing better can anywhere else be found. When one has a fountain...
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...
BECAUSE MY PEOPLE HATH FORGOTTEN ME,.... Or, "that they have forgotten me" z; this is the horrible thing they have done, which was unheard of among the Gentiles, who were always tenacious of their god...
Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways [from] the ancient paths, to walk in paths, [in] a way not cast up; Ver. 15...
_Because my people have forgotten me The fountain of living waters;_ have forgotten what I am in myself, and what I have been, and am still ready to be to them; have lost their knowledge of me, and th...
THE PARABLE FURTHER APPLIED...
Because My people hath forgotten Me, they have burned incense to vanity, to the idols, which are nothing in the sight of God, AND THEY HAVE CAUSED THEM TO STUMBLE IN THEIR WAYS FROM THE ANCIENT PATHS,...
11-17 Sinners call it liberty to live at large; whereas for a man to be a slave to his lusts, is the very worst slavery. They forsook God for idols. When men are parched with heat, and meet with cool...
FORGOTTEN and _forsaken_ are much the same thing, differing only as the cause and the effect; for if men remembered God as they ought to do, they would not forsake him. By VANITY he means idols; which...
Jeremiah 18:15 people H5971 forgotten H7911 (H8804) incense H6999 (H8762) idols H7723 stumble H3782 (H8686) way
BECAUSE OF THEIR REFUSAL TO RESPOND TO HIS ‘SHAPING' HE WILL NOW ‘SHAPE' EVIL AGAINST THEM UNLESS THEY NOW REPENT. HIS OFFER BEING TURNED DOWN GOD CALLS ON THE NATIONS TO BE ASTONISHED WITNESSES OF TH...
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...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 18:14 DOES THE SNOW OF LEBANON LEAVE... DO THE MOUNTAIN WATERS RUN DRY? Both questions expect a negative answer. In contrast, Judah has done the unnatural thing and deserted...
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...
Hosea 11:2; Hosea 2:13; Isaiah 3:12; Isaiah 41:29; Isaiah 57:14;...