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A Word with Two Edges
Commentators explain that God's Word has a dual effect depending on the heart of the hearer. For the receptive, it is a refining fire that purifies and a tool that shapes. For the proud and rebellious, it becomes a consuming fire of judgment and a hammer that shatters hardened hearts. As one scholar notes, it is either 'the odor of life unto life' or 'the odor of death unto death.'
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Jeremiah
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Albert Barnes
On Jeremiah 23:29
18th Century
Theologian
Like a fire – God’s word is the great purifier which destroys all that is false and proves only the genuine metal. ().
Like a hamme…
Charles Ellicott
On Jeremiah 23:29
19th Century
Bishop
Is not my word like as a fire? ... —The prophet speaks out of the depths of his own experience. The true prophetic word b…
Charles Spurgeon
On Jeremiah 23:29–30
19th Century
Preacher
Borrowed sermons – pages of other people's experience – fragments pulled from old or new divines – nothing of their own, nothing that God ever said…
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John Calvin
On Jeremiah 23:29
16th Century
Theologian
He confirms what he said about the chaff and the wheat, but in different words. It was a fitting comparison when Jeremiah compared God’s word to wh…
John Gill
On Jeremiah 23:29
17th Century
Pastor
[Is] not my word like as a fire? says the Lord The legal part of it is as fire; it is called a "fiery law", ([Reference D…
Matthew Henry
On Jeremiah 23:23–32
17th Century
Minister
People cannot be hidden from God's all-seeing eye. Will they never see what judgments they prepare for themselves?
Let them consider what a …