Like a lamb or an ox - Rather, “like a tame lamb.” Jeremiah had lived at Anathoth as one of the family, never suspecting that, like a tame l…

Like a lamb or an ox. — Better, as a tame lamb, i.e., one like the ewe-lamb of Nathan’s parable ([Reference 2 Samuel 12:3…

The Prophet adds here, as I think, that he did not retaliate private wrongs. For the Jews might, under this pretext, have rejected his doctrine, an…

But I was like a lamb, or an ox The word "alluph", rendered an ox, is by many considered as an adjective to the word lamb…

The prophet Jeremiah tells us much about himself; the times he lived in were very troublesome. Those of his own city plotted how they might cause h…

Here, the author shows how they transgre ed by sinning against the prophet himself. What is said literally suits Jeremiah, who came to be hated by …