What do you see, Jeremiah? —The question is asked as if to force the symbol as strongly as possible on the prophet’s mind…

In the last lecture, we began to explain the meaning of the vision which the Prophet relates. We said that the miserable exiles, whose condition mi…

Then said the Lord to me, what do you see, Jeremiah ?
&c.] This question is put, in order that, upon his answer to i…

Good and bad figs represent the Jews in captivity, and those who remain in their own land.

The prophet saw two baskets of figs set before the…

1. Here, the separation of the wicked princes from the good is spoken of through a simile.

   1. First is the explanation of the …