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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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Albert Barnes
On Jeremiah 19:1
18th Century
Theologian
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 …
Charles Ellicott
On Jeremiah 19:1
19th Century
Bishop
And get a potter’s earthen bottle. —The word for “get ” involves buying as the process. The symbolic ac…
John Calvin
On Jeremiah 19:1–3
16th Century
Theologian
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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John Gill
On Jeremiah 19:1
17th Century
Pastor
Thus says the Lord, go and get a potter's earthen bottle
From the potter's house, where he had lately been; and wher…
Matthew Henry
On Jeremiah 19:1–9
17th Century
Minister
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…