The complete fulfillment of this prophecy belongs to the Christian Church. There is a close analogy between Jeremiah at the first destruction of Je…

So will I acknowledge. — The expected revelation came. The two baskets represented the two sections of the people.

The captives who…

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…

Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel
Of all the tribes of Israel; of the ten tribes that had been carried captive l…

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 …