Brutish - Jeremiah 10:21 and foolish Theirs was the brutishness of men in a savage state, little better than mere animals: their folly that of stupidity.
The stock ... - Rather, the instruction of idols is a piece of wood. That is what they are themselves, and “ex nihilo nihil fit” (from nothingness, nothing is made).
Verse Jeremiah 10:8. _THE STOCK_ IS _A DOCTRINE OF VANITIES._] Dr. _Blayney_ translates,-"The wood itself is a rebuker of vanities." The very tree out of which the god is hewn demonstrates the vanity...
CHAPTER 10 The Vanity of Idols _ 1. Be not dismayed at the signs of heaven (Jeremiah 10:1) _ 2. The contrast: The vanity of idols and the Lord, the King of Nations (Jeremiah 10:6) 3. The afflictio...
THE FOLLY OF IDOLATRY, This passage (like Jeremiah 9:23) interrupts the connexion of Jeremiah 9:22 and Jeremiah 10:17; its denunciation of the idols of the heathen as utterly futile for good or evil r...
Omitted, most probably rightly, by LXX. See above....
Jeremiah 10:1-16. The folly of idolatry It is now generally recognised that this passage is a later insertion, for (_a_) it breaks the connexion between Jeremiah 9:1-22 and Jeremiah 10:17 ff.; while...
See summary at commencement of the ch....
_together_ rather, _all together_, one and all. _the instruction … a stock_ lit. _the instruction of idols is wood_, i.e. "is no better than the idol itself: idolatry is destitute of moral or spiritu...
BUT THEY ARE ALTOGETHER BRUTISH, &C.— _But they are altogether foolish, and have received the instruction of those which are nothing but wood._ Houb. _THE STOCK IS A DOCTRINE OF VANITIES_— The true me...
B. The Incomparable God of Israel Jeremiah 10:6-16 TRANSLATION (6) There is none like You O LORD; great are You and great is Your name in power. (7) Who would not fear You, O King of the nations; for...
But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities. THEY ARE ALTOGETHER - rather, all alike (Maurer). BRUTISH - even the so-called "wise" men () of the Gentiles are...
10:8 stock. (e-16) Or 'wood is an instruction of vanity.'...
1-16. The folly of idolatry. This section of the prophecy is of doubtful authorship. For (_a_) it introduces a break in the sense; (_b_) there is less smoothness between the parts than we generally fi...
THE STOCK, etc.] RV 'the instruction of idols, it is but a stock': an idol is wood, and can never get beyond it....
ALTOGETHER. — Literally, _in one,_ probably in the sense _in one word, in one fact, sc.,_ that which follows in the next clause. THE STOCK IS A DOCTRINE OF VANITIES. — Better, inverting the subject a...
וּ בְ אַחַ֖ת יִבְעֲר֣וּ וְ יִכְסָ֑לוּ מוּסַ֥ר
CHAPTER VI THE IDOLS OF THE HEATHEN AND THE GOD OF ISRAEL Jeremiah 10:1 THIS fine piece is altogether isolated from the surrounding context, which it interrupts in a very surprising manner. Neither...
Jeremiah 8:1; Jeremiah 9:1; Jeremiah 10:1; Jeremiah 26:1 In the four Chapter s which we are now to consider we have what is plainly a fin
THE FOLLY OF IDOLATRY Jeremiah 10:1-10; Jeremiah 19:1-15; Jeremiah 20:1-18; Jeremiah 21:1-14; Jeremiah 22:1-30; Jeremiah 23:1-40; Jeremiah 24:1-10; Jeremiah 25:1-38...
Here begins the third movement in the commissioning of the prophet. In it the sin of idolatry is first dealt with. The prophet revealed the unutterable folly of idolatry in a powerful contrast between...
But they are altogether senseless and foolish: the stock [is] a (e) doctrine of vanities. (e) Because the people thought that to have images was a means to serve God, and to bring them to the knowledg...
_Vanity, and shews them clearly to be foolish (Calmet) and wicked. (Haydock)_...
This is most striking sermon, and very highly finished, in which the Prophet, in the Lord's name, asserts his divine nature and sovereignty: and then displays the folly of idols. The words are so plai...
The Prophet shews here, in one sentence, that the wisest in the whole world could be proved guilty of the greatest madness, or of a twofold folly, because they willingly worshipped the trunks of trees...
In chapter 10 the idols and the vanities of the nations are put in contrast with Jehovah. In Verses 19-25 (Jeremiah 10:19-25) we have the affliction of the prophet, speaking of the desolation of Jerus...
BUT THEY ARE ALTOGETHER BRUTISH AND FOOLISH,.... In comparison of the Lord, there is no knowledge and wisdom in them, this is a certain fact; they are verily brutish and foolish; or they are one and a...
But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock [is] a doctrine of vanities. Ver. 8. _But they are altogether brutish and foolish._] The wise men are, for that, when they knew there was but on...
_But they are altogether brutish_ Or, _all alike brutish._ They that make images, saith the psalmist, Psalms 115:8, _are like unto them_, equally stupid and insensible. _The stock is a doctrine of van...
But they are altogether brutish and foolish, the heathen are all alike in their stupidity, they have sunk to the level of brutes because they have severed their connection with the true God; THE STOCK...
THE NOTHINGNESS OF IDOLS...
ALTOGETHER: _ Heb._ in one, or at once...
1-16 The prophet shows the glory of Israel's God, and exposes the folly of idolaters. Charms and other attempts to obtain supernatural help, or to pry into futurity, are copied from the wicked custom...
THEY ARE ALTOGETHER BRUTISH: the awe that the idol doth impress upon carnal men's minds, and thereby taking them off from a due apprehension of the essence of God, doth keep them between such hope and...
Jeremiah 10:8 altogether H259 dull-hearted H1197 (H8799) foolish H3688 (H8799) idol H6086 worthless H1892 doctrine H414
THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL ARE NOT TO LEARN THE WAY OF THE NATIONS BECAUSE, WHILE YHWH IS GREAT BEYOND DESCRIBING, THEIR IDOLS ARE UTTERLY FUTILE (JEREMIAH 10:1). This passage, in a sequence of verses, compa...
Jeremiah 10:1. _Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen...
CONTENTS: Message in the temple gate, concluded. Greatness of the true God. Coming distresses in the land because of sin. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Jehovah is the one only living and tr...
Jeremiah 10:2. _Be not dismayed at the signs of heaven;_ at the position of revolving planets on which the augurs found predictions, and discover their ignorance. Be not dismayed at solar eclipses, at...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 10:8 Taking INSTRUCTION from IDOLS is foolish. Idols may be made of the finest materials by the finest craftsman, but they remain human creations. Tarshish
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. Section 1–16 has been declared spurious (by De Wette, Movers, and Hitzig), its authenticity disputed, a late interpolation by either the ps...
EXPOSITION Whoever wrote the prophecy in Jeremiah 10:1 of this chapter, it was not Jeremiah; but of course, as the passage forms part of a canonical book, its claims to the character of a Scripture re...
Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven [or the Zodiac]; for the heathen...
Habakkuk 2:18; Hosea 4:12; Isaiah 41:29; Isaiah 44:19; Jeremiah 10:14