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A Counter-Intuitive Path to Life
Commentators highlight that God's command to surrender to the Babylonians seemed like treason and cowardice from a human perspective. This path to life was humbling and counter-intuitive, requiring self-denial. It teaches that God's methods of salvation can defy worldly logic, demanding humble obedience over prideful resistance.
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Jeremiah
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Albert Barnes
On Jeremiah 21:9
18th Century
Theologian
He that ... falleth to the Chaldeans - This was to counsel desertion, and would have been treason in an ordinary man: but the proph…
Charles Ellicott
On Jeremiah 21:9
19th Century
Bishop
And falleth to the Chaldeans. —The words must have seemed to the messengers to counsel treachery and desertion, and were …
John Calvin
On Jeremiah 21:8–9
16th Century
Theologian
God here declares that He proposed to the people the way of life and the way of death, so that they might surely know that all who remaine…
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John Gill
On Jeremiah 21:9
17th Century
Pastor
He that abideth in this city Imagining himself safe there; not fearing its being taken by the king of Babylon; though it …
Matthew Henry
On Jeremiah 21:1–10
17th Century
Minister
When the siege had begun, Zedekiah sent to ask Jeremiah concerning the event. In times of distress and danger, people often seek those to counsel a…