The reason why the girdle was chosen as the symbol. Similarly, Israel was the people chosen and set apart so that in them and by them the Holy Spir…

The whole house of Israel. —The acted parable includes not only, as in Jeremiah 13:9, Judah, to whom the warning was specially add…

He confirms what we noticed yesterday—that the Jews entertained a foolish confidence and promised themselves perpetual happiness because God had ch…

For as the girdle cleaves to the loins of a man, being girt tight to him, so I have caused to cleave to me the whole house of Israel, a…

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

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