Charles Ellicott Commentary


Charles Ellicott Commentary
"who didst set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even unto this day, both in Israel and among [other] men; and madest thee a name, as at this day;" — Jeremiah 32:20 (ASV)
Even to this day ... —The reference to the signs and wonders in Egypt seems natural enough, but in what sense, we ask, could those wonders have been said to have been performed “to this day”? It is conceivable that what he had heard of the frogs, and the lice, and the boils of Egypt might seem to Jeremiah the perpetuation, in part, of the old plagues; but we find, perhaps, an adequate meaning by seeing in the words the assertion that the old signs and wonders continued in their effect and in their memory. The “name” continued, though the signs themselves had passed away.
Among other men. —Better, among men. There is no word for “other” in the Hebrew, and the words have their full force of declaring God’s universal government over mankind at large.