Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Jeremiah 31:36
Those ordinances — The ordinances of nature, which are God's establishments for the working of natural causes in their order.
Those ordinances — The ordinances of nature, which are God's establishments for the working of natural causes in their order.
Verse Jeremiah 31:36. _IF THOSE ORDINANCES_] As sure as the _sun_ shall give light to the _day_, and the _moon_ to the _night_, so surely shall the Jews continue to be a distinct people. The same thi...
IF THOSE - If these. From the uniformity of God’s operations in the material world, the prophet deduces the certainty of a similar uniformity in God’s dealings with man in things spiritual. A NATION -...
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
Israel's national existence shall be as permanent as Yahweh's rule of nature (Jeremiah 31:35 f.); it is as impossible for Israel to be rejected as it is for man to comprehend the created world (Jeremi...
IF THOSE ORDINANCES. So sure is the literal fulfilment of these prophecies concerning the literal restoration of Israel. THE SEED. Note the Structure (on p. 1061). FOR EVER. all the days....
Many hold these _vv_. to be by a writer of later date than Jeremiah, because (_a_) the vehemence of their national tone exceeds the prophet's ordinary form of expression, (_b_) they present a good man...
As soon shall the Divine decrees which regulate the course of nature be dissolved, as Israel be utterly rejected from its status as the people of Jehovah....
See introd. summary to the section....
DISCOURSE: 1075 THE CHURCH’S SECURITY Jeremiah 31:35. Thus saith the Lord, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which dirideth...
IF THOSE ORDINANCES DEPART, &C.— These promises cannot respect the carnal Jews; they certainly regard another people, who were taken into their place, and succeeded to their prerogatives and promises;...
F. A New Commitment Jeremiah 31:35-37 TRANSLATION (35) Thus says the LORD who gave the sun for light by day, and the statutes of moon and stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so its waves r...
If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever. IF THOSE ORDINANCES DEPART ... THEN ... ISRAEL ALSO SHALL...
31:36 ordinances (a-3) _ Choq_ , as Exodus 12:24 ....
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....
Israel's national existence is as assured as the unchangeableness of the laws imposed by God on the universe, or as its limitless character. 38-40. See on Jeremiah 7:31. Jerusalem in her future extens...
WHICH GIVETH THE SUN FOR A LIGHT BY DAY... — The leading thought in the lofty language of this passage is that the reign of law which we recognise in God’s creative work has its counterpart in His spi...
אִם ־יָמֻ֜שׁוּ הַ חֻקִּ֥ים הָ אֵ֛לֶּה מִ
CHAPTER XXXIII RESTORATION IV THE NEW COVENANT Jeremiah 31:31: CF. Hebrews 8:1 "I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah."- Jeremiah 31:31 THE religious histo
CHAPTER XXXI RESTORATION II THE NEW ISRAEL Jeremiah 23:3; Jeremiah 24:6; Jeremiah 30:1; Jeremiah 31:1;...
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...
_Ever. Like the Chanaanites and Ephraim during the captivity, Isaias vii. 8. God restored the latter. Yet they are again dispersed from above 17 centuries, so that this perpetuity, which shall equal t...
I pray the Reader not to overlook the abundant grace of God, in thus appealing to his covenant concerning his providences, made after the flood, and the confirmation of it in Jeremiah's days, as a tok...
He confirms the promises which we have been considering; for it was difficult to believe that the people would not only recover what they had lost, but also be made much more happy; for the Church was...
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...
IF THOSE ORDINANCES DEPART FROM BEFORE ME, SAITH THE LORD,.... Of the sun, moon, and stars; should these leave their proper course, and not perform their several functions, or do the service appointed...
If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, [then] the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever. Ver. 36. _If those ordinances depart from before me._] If...
_Thus saith the Lord, who giveth the sun for a light by day_ All the acts here mentioned are such as manifest the divine, almighty power of him who is the Lord of all the hosts of the creation. _Which...
THE NEW LIFE AND THE NEW COVENANT...
35-40 As surely as the heavenly bodies will continue their settled course, according to the will of their Creator, to the end of time, and as the raging sea obeys him, so surely will the Jews be cont...
There are ordinances of worship, which are God's laws relating to his worship; and ordinances of justice, which are God's laws for the executing civil justice; and ordinances of nature, which are God'...
Jeremiah 31:36 ordinances H2706 depart H4185 (H8799) before H6440 says H5002 (H8803) LORD H3068 seed H2233 Isra
SUB-PART B. THE COMING DAYS WILL INTRODUCE A COMPLETELY NEW TYPE OF COVENANT PROVIDED BY YHWH, ONE THAT IS WRITTEN IN THE HEART AND WILL THUS RESULT IN CHANGED LIVES (JEREMIAH 31:23). This sub-part co...
THIS WORK OF GOD WITHIN IS GUARANTEED FOR YHWH'S TRUE PEOPLE, BEING AS CERTAIN AS HIS GIVING OF LIGHT THROUGH SUN, MOON AND STARS BY DAY AND NIGHT, AND AS HIS CONTINUAL STIRRING UP OF THE SEAS (JEREMI...
THE THREEFOLD PREDICTIONS CONCERNING ‘THE DAYS THAT ARE COMING' (JEREMIAH 31:27). We now come to a threefold prediction concerning the coming days, backed up by absolute assurances of their fulfilmen...
Jeremiah 31:29. _In these days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge. But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eatet...
Jeremiah 31:27. Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast. And it shall come to pass, that like...
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 will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah._ THE NEW COVENANT The old and new covenants are placed in opposition to each other. The latter is represented as be...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 31:1 This chapter includes the most famous passage in Jeremiah 1:1, the promise of a new covenant (vv....
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 31:35 God gives a FIXED ORDER to the natural creation. It is just as impossible for the new covenant (vv. Jeremiah 31:31) to...
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...
Amos 9:8; Amos 9:9; Deuteronomy 32:26; Isaiah 54:10; Isaiah 54:9;...