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Sin's Built-In Consequences
Commentators unanimously highlight that sin carries its own punishment. It's not just about a future judgment; our "wickedness" itself becomes the instrument of our "correction." As Charles Spurgeon noted, the very thing you seek for pleasure or security apart from God will eventually become your scourge. This is what Charles Ellicott calls an "eternal law of retribution" where sin is naturally self-destructive.
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Jeremiah
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Albert Barnes
On Jeremiah 2:19
18th Century
Theologian
Correct you - Or, “chastise you.” Alliances with foreign powers shall bring trouble and not safety.
Charles Ellicott
On Jeremiah 2:19
19th Century
Bishop
Your own wickedness. —The tone is now of a higher mood, and rises from what is local and temporary to the eternal law of retributi…
Charles Spurgeon
On Jeremiah 2:19
19th Century
Preacher
Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, t…
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John Calvin
On Jeremiah 2:19
16th Century
Theologian
Here again, the Prophet confirms what I have previously stated—that the people would eventually find, willingly or unwillingly, what it was to depa…
John Gill
On Jeremiah 2:19
17th Century
Pastor
Thine own wickedness shall correct thee That is, either their wickedness in going to Egypt and Assyria, and the ill succe…
Matthew Henry
On Jeremiah 2:14–19
17th Century
Minister
Is Israel a servant? No, they are the seed of Abraham.
We may apply this spiritually: Is the soul of man a slave? No, it is not; but it has …