This verse limits the application of the symbol. Only the ungodly and the idolatrous part of the people decayed at Babylon. The religious portion w…

Imagination. —Better, as before, stubbornness.

Shall even be as this girdle. —The same thought is…

The Prophet said, according to what we observed yesterday, that the people would be like the belt which he had hidden in a hole and found putrefied…

This evil people, which refuse to hear my words Sent by the prophets, to whom they turned a deaf ear; and though they pre…

It was common for the prophets to teach by signs. And we have the explanation in Jeremiah 13:9-11.

The people of Israel had been to God as t…

Here, he gives the application of the allegory, and on this topic, he makes two points.

1. First, he applies the allegory to the puni…