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Verse Jeremiah 18:3. _HE WROUGHT A WORK ON THE WHEELS._] אל
האבנים _al_ _haabnayim, upon the stones_, the potter's wheel
being usually made of such; the spindle of the moving stone being
placed on a...
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THE WHEELS - literally, “the two wheels.” The lower one was worked
by the feet to give motion to the upper one, which was a flat disc or
plate of wood, on which the potter laid the clay, and moulded i...
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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
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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...
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_the potter's house_ The likening (as in Jeremiah 18:6) of man to the
clay and God to the potter was familiar. See on Jeremiah 18:4. The
trade was a very early one. Thomson (_The Land and the Book_, p...
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ON THE WHEELS— _Upon the stones._ This is the literal signification
of עלאּהאבנים _al haabnaiim,_ which the LXX. also render
επι των λιθων. There can be no doubt that the machine is
intended, on which...
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CHAPTER ELEVEN
THE POTTER AND HIS VESSELS
Jeremiah 18:1 to Jeremiah 20:18
Chapter s 18-20 are composed of various types of literature centering
around the common theme of the potter's vessels. The f...
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Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a
work on the wheels.
WHEELS, [ haa'aabªnaayim (H70)] - literally, 'on both stones.' The
potter's horizontal lathe consisted of two r...
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1-17. Figure of the potter's clay....
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THE POTTER'S HOUSE] Clay from which pottery was made was found S. of
Jerusalem: cp. Zechariah 11:13; Matthew 27:10. The potter teaches
Jeremiah important lessons concerning the providential rule of th...
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וָ אֵרֵ֖ד בֵּ֣ית הַ יֹּוצֵ֑ר
_וְ_†_הִנֵּה_†־_ה֛וּא_
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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...
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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...
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_Wheel. Hebrew, "stones." Septuagint, "seats;" or "wheel." (Chaldean)
(Exodus i. 16.) See Ecclesiasticus xxxviii. 32. (Calmet)_...
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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,...
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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...
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THEN I WENT DOWN TO THE POTTER'S HOUSE,.... He did as the Lord
commanded him; he was obedient to the divine will; he went to hear
what the Lord had to say to him there, and to observe such things,
fro...
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Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work
on the wheels.
Ver. 3. Then I went down to the potter's house.] _a_ God's commands
must be obeyed without sciscitation. Jeremiah...
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_The word which came to Jeremiah_, &c. We have here the beginning of a
new discourse of Jeremiah, which, if introduced in its proper place,
as we have reason to think it is, was probably also, as well...
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THE PARABLE OF THE POTTER...
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Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work
on the wheels, literally, "on the disks," for the potter's lathe
consisted of two horizontal wooden plates, the lower one larger...
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WHEELS:
Or, frames or seats...
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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...
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Jeremiah yields a present and free obedience to the command of God,
though he did not know God's meaning in it, and findeth the potter at
work upon WHEELS or _frames_ which he formed his clay upon, to...
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Jeremiah 18:3 down H3381 (H8799) potters H3335 (H8802) house H1004 was
H2009 making H6213 (H8802) something...
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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....
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Jeremiah 18:3
_(with Jeremiah 19:1; Jeremiah 19:10)_
I. There is a Divine ideal possible for every man. God has not made
any man simply for destruction. He has an archetype or pattern before
Him, whi...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Acts 26:19; John 15:14; Jonah 1:3...