Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Jeremiah 18:6
Cannot I do — That God hath an absolute sovereign power to do what he pleases with the work of his hands: but he acts as a just judge, rendering to every man according to his works.
Cannot I do — That God hath an absolute sovereign power to do what he pleases with the work of his hands: but he acts as a just judge, rendering to every man according to his works.
Verse Jeremiah 18:6. _CANNOT I DO WITH YOU AS THIS POTTER?_] Have I not a right to do with a people whom I have created as reason and justice may require? If they do not answer my intentions, may I no...
SO ARE YE IN MINE HAND - When a vessel was ruined, the potter did not throw it away, but crushed it together, dashed it back upon the wheel, and began his work afresh, until the clay had taken the pre...
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...
JEREMIAH'S THIRTEENTH PROPHECY (see book comments for Jeremiah). HOUSE OF ISRAEL. See note on Jeremiah 2:4. SAITH THE LORD. [is] Jehovah's oracle, BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._...
"First of the prophets, Jeremiah proclaims distinctly what had been more or less implied throughout, that predictions were subject to no overruling necessity, but depended for their fulfilment on the...
DISCOURSE: 1058 THE POTTER’S POWER OVER THE CLAY Jeremiah 18:6. _O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the Lord. Behold, as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are ye in my h...
B. The Interpretation for the Prophet Jeremiah 18:5-10 TRANSLATION (5) And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, (6) Am I not able to do to you as this potter (oracle of the LORD)? Behold, like...
O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel. O HOUSE OF ISRAEL, CANNOT I DO WITH Y...
1-17. Figure of the potter's clay....
CANNOT I DO WITH YOU AS THIS POTTER? — The question implies a theory of the universe, which is neither (as some have thought) one of absolute fatalism, crushing man’s freedom, nor, on the other hand,...
הֲ כַ † יֹּוצֵ֨ר הַ זֶּ֜ה לֹא...
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,...
_THE POTTER AND THE CLAY_ ‘As the clay is in the potter’s hand.’ Jeremiah 18:6 I. DISHEARTENED WITH HIS FRUITLESS ATTEMPTS TO BRING HIS PEOPLE TO REPENTANCE, JEREMIAH WAS BIDDEN TO WATCH THE POTTER...
Now, in the application, we must notice how things correspond: As the clay is at the will and under the power of the potter, so men are at the will of God: God then is compared to the potter. There is...
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...
O HOUSE OF ISRAEL, CANNOT I DO WITH YOU AS THIS POTTER? SAITH THE LORD,.... Make, and mar, and remake at pleasure? certainly he could. God is a sovereign Being, and has a sovereign and uncontrollable...
O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay [is] in the potter's hand, so [are] ye in mine hand, O house of Israel. Ver. 6. _O house of Israel, cannot...
_Cannot I do with you as this potter?_ Have I not as absolute an authority and power over you? Nay, God has an infinitely clearer title to dominion over us than the potter has over the clay, for the p...
O house of Israel, the entire nation being addressed, as including the true Church of God, CANNOT I DO WITH YOU AS THIS POTTER? SAITH THE LORD, namely, in discarding a people that had proved unfaithfu...
THE PARABLE OF THE POTTER...
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...
God now expoundeth to the prophet his design in bidding him go to the potter's house, it was to instruct or confirm him in the power that he had over his creatures. For, saith he, as is the clay to th...
Jeremiah 18:6 house H1004 Israel H3478 not H3201 (H8799) do H6213 (H8800) potter H3335 (H8802
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 18:6 I. Every human life is, first of all, an idea in the mind of God. The potter is an artist, and it is the thoughts of his head he embodies in the vessels he makes. Our beings are Divine...
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...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 18:6 CAN I NOT DO WITH YOU? As its maker, God can reshape ISRAEL. ⇐...
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...
Daniel 4:23; Isaiah 64:8; Jeremiah 18:4; Matthew 20:15; Romans 11:34