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Thus said Yahweh, Go, and buy a potter`s earthen bottle, and [take] of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;
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From Malleable to Hardened
Commentators explain this act is a direct sequel to the potter's house in chapter 18. There, the clay was still soft and could be reshaped. Here, the purchased bottle is already fired and hardened. This symbolizes that the people's hearts had become so obdurate in sin that the time for reshaping had passed; the only option left was for God to shatter the nation in judgment.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Get (that is, purchase) a potter’s earthen bottle. The “bottle” was a flask with a long neck and took its name from the noise made …
19th Century
Anglican
And get a potter’s earthen bottle. —The word for “get ” involves buying as the process. The symbolic ac…
16th Century
Protestant
We see that the Prophet was sent by God to show the people that there was no firmness in that state of which hypocrites boasted. For God, who had f…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Thus says the Lord, go and get a potter's earthen bottle From the potter's house, where he had lately been; and wher…
The prophet must give notice of ruin coming upon Judah and Jerusalem. Both rulers and ruled must attend to it. That place which holiness made the j…
13th Century
Catholic
Here, the full punishment is threatened.
First, he gives the place of the preaching: to the valley of the sons of Hinnom, whic…
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