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Yahweh called your name, A green olive-tree, beautiful with goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he has kindled fire on it, and the branches of it are broken.
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A Privileged Tree
Commentators explain that God called Israel a "green olive tree, fair with goodly fruit" to describe His ideal purpose for them. As His chosen people, they were meant to be beautiful and produce the fruit of righteousness and faith. This image highlights the special relationship and divine potential God had bestowed upon them.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
A parenthesis. As in Jeremiah 7:16, all intercession is forbidden, and for this reason: Prayer for others for the forgiveness of their sins is effe…
19th Century
Anglican
A green olive tree. —The parable is essentially the same, though a different symbol is chosen, as that of the vine of Isa…
16th Century
Protestant
The Prophet says first that the Jews had indeed been for a time like a fruitful and beautiful olive; then he adds, that this beauty would not preve…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
The Lord called your name a green olive tree That is, compared the Jewish church and people to one, and made them as…
Evil pursues sinners, and entangles them in snares from which they cannot free themselves. Now, in their distress, their many gods and many altars …
13th Century
Catholic
Here, he threatens an inescapable punishment for incorrigible guilt.
He speaks of the punishment: behold I
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