Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Jeremiah 18:18
For — We have the church on our side; the regular priests and the prophets, they know God's mind as well as he. Let us smite him with the tongue — Expose him, representing him to be what the people hate.
For — We have the church on our side; the regular priests and the prophets, they know God's mind as well as he. Let us smite him with the tongue — Expose him, representing him to be what the people hate.
Verse Jeremiah 18:18. _COME, AND LET US DEVISE DEVICES_] Let us form a conspiracy against him, accuse him of being a _false prophet_, and a contradicter of the words of God, for God has promised us pr...
The Jews were only hardened by the foregoing prophecy, and determined to compass Jeremiah’s death. LET US DEVISE DEVICES - i. e., “deliberately frame a plot” for his ruin (see Jeremiah 18:11 note). 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...
THE LAW, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 10:11). App-92. WITH THE TONGUE. with hard words. "Tongue" put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), for the hard words spoken by it....
_they_ the prophet's enemies, who are plotting against his life. Cp. Jeremiah 11:18 ff., Jeremiah 12:1 ff., Jeremiah 15:10 f., Jeremiah 15:
See introd. note to section....
COME, AND LET US DEVISE, &C.— "Let us accuse him of being a false prophet; for his threatenings plainly contradict God's promises to his people; whereby we are assured that there shall always be a suc...
II. THE HUMAN VESSEL Jeremiah 18:18-23 In Jeremiah 18:18-23 Jeremiah experiences the third personal crisis of his ministry. These verses contain (1) the plan of the adversaries (Jeremiah 18:18), a
Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him wi...
The people's appeal against Jeremiah's words to the three classes of persons whom they thought to be in undoubted possession of the truth. 21-23. The stern spirit of the OT. dispensation, as shown in...
1-17. Figure of the potter's clay....
COME, AND LET US DEVISE DEVICES. — The priests and people thus far appear to have listened to the prophet, but at the threatening words of the preceding verse their anger becomes hatred, and their hat...
וַ יֹּאמְר֗וּ לְכ֨וּ וְ נַחְשְׁבָ֣ה עַֽל ־יִר
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...
said they, Come, and let us devise plots against Jeremiah; for the law (g) shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with t...
_Prophet. Jeremias will not cease to upbraid us with our transgressions; or we have guides as good as him, and we shall not be left destitute, as he would intimate. --- Tongue, detraction; or make him...
Reader! do not hastily pass over this verse. Look through all ages of the Church, and behold the same continually acting over again, towards all the faithful servants of the Lord. One of the surest ma...
Here Jeremiah relates how great was the fury which seized the minds of those on whom he had denounced the vengeance of God. It was no doubt a dreadthl thing to hear, that when they should be in a stat...
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 SAID THEY, COME, AND LET US DEVISE DEVICES AGAINST JEREMIAH,.... Being enraged at the judgments threatened them, they propose to enter into a confederacy and consultation together, to think of wa...
Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him wit...
_Then said they, Come_, &c. Namely, after they had heard from Jeremiah what God had ordered him to say to them concerning their destruction; for this seems to be understood. _Let us devise devices aga...
THE PARABLE FURTHER APPLIED...
Then said they, Come and let us devise devices against Jeremiah, planning wicked designs against his person and life; FOR THE LAW SHALL NOT PERISH FROM THE PRIEST, NOR COUNSEL FROM THE WISE, NOR THE W...
WITH THE TONGUE: Or, for the tongue...
18-23 When the prophet called to repentance, instead of obeying the call, the people devised devices against him. Thus do sinners deal with the great Intercessor, crucifying him afresh, and speaking a...
This faithful dealing of the prophet with them did only enrage them (as is usual) against the prophet; they plot against the prophet, how to be revenged on him, because he would cross their humours, a...
Jeremiah 18:18 said H559 (H8799) Come H3212 (H8798) devise H2803 (H8799) plans H4284 Jeremiah H3414 law...
THE PEOPLE RESPOND IN VINDICTIVENESS TO JEREMIAH'S MESSAGE (JEREMIAH 18:18). The people were not best pleased with Jeremiah's prophecies and asked themselves whether in fact they really needed him wh...
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...
_Come, and let us smite him With the tongue._ THE REFORMERS’ TASK DIFFICULT AND DANGEROUS If there were a hundred violins together, all playing below concert pitch, and I should take a real Cremona,...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 18:18 The people rejected the notion that Jeremiah was right and all their leaders wrong (Jeremiah 1:17;...
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...
1 Kings 22:24; 2 Samuel 15:31; 2 Samuel 17:14; Isaiah 32:7;...