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but, As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the countries where he had driven them. I will bring them again into their land that I gave to their fathers.
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A Greater Rescue, A Deeper Pit
Commentators agree that the promise of a future deliverance greater than the Exodus from Egypt implies a preceding punishment far more severe. The coming exile in Babylon ("the land of the north") would be so devastating and seemingly hopeless that the subsequent rescue would require an even more magnificent miracle.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
These two verses, by promising a deliverance greater than that from Egypt, implied also a chastisement more terrible than the bondage in the iron f…
19th Century
Anglican
Behold, the days come ... — Judgment and mercy are tempered in the promise. Here the former is predominant. Afterwards, i…
16th Century
Protestant
Jeremiah seems here to promise a return to the Jews; and so the passage is commonly interpreted, as though a consolation is inserted, in which the …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
But the Lord liveth Or they shall swear by the living Lord; or declare his power, as the Targum: "that brought up the chi…
The restoration from the Babylonian captivity would be remembered in place of the deliverance from Egypt; it also typified spiritual redemption, an…
13th Century
Catholic
Here, he gives the cause of the previously mentioned punishment.
First, he poses the question: why has the LORD spoken all this great…
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