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A glorious throne, [set] on high from the beginning, is the place of our sanctuary.
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The Sanctuary: God's Earthly Throne
Scholars unanimously identify the "glorious high throne" with the sanctuary or Temple in Jerusalem. This wasn't just a building, but the very place God chose to enthrone His presence on earth. It was a unique and incomparable honor for Israel, making their land, as one commentator puts it, a "terrestrial heaven" and a figure of God's true throne in heaven.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
In the rest of the prophecy, Jeremiah dwells upon the moral faults which had led to Judah’s ruin.
Jeremiah 17:6: Like the…
19th Century
Anglican
A glorious high throne ... —The verse is better taken in connection with the following, and not, as the interpolated “is” makes it…
16th Century
Protestant
Undoubtedly the Prophet refers to the unique favor which God granted to the Jews when He chose for Himself a dwelling place among them. It was an i…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary . ] The templ…
The prophet acknowledges the favor of God in establishing religion. There is fullness of comfort in God—overflowing, ever-flowing fullness, like a …
13th Century
Catholic
He touches on the second source from which the hope of immunity arose: an abundance of riches. He speaks of the confidence the wicked pla…
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