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Therefore thus says Yahweh of Hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how [else] should I do, because of the daughter of my people?
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God as the Divine Refiner
Scholars explain that God's judgment is like a refiner's fire. He will "melt" and "try" His people in the crucible of affliction. This process is not merely punitive; it is corrective. Its purpose is to test their hearts, expose their hypocrisy, and burn away the "dross" of their sin, purifying what little good remains.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
From their punishment the prophet now turns to their sins.
(Jeremiah 9:2) The prophet utters the wish that he might be spared hi…
19th Century
Anglican
I will melt them, and try them. —The prophet, speaking in the name of Jehovah, falls back upon the imagery of Jeremiah 6:…
Baptist
Do you wonder that Jeremiah wept? With such a true spirit, so tender and sympathetic, he could not bear it when man had become man's worst enemy, a…
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16th Century
Protestant
Jeremiah, speaking in God’s name, concludes that the chastisement of which he had spoken was necessary. And what I have already said appears more c…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts Because of this deceit and hypocrisy, and lying: behold, I will melt th…
Jeremiah wept much, yet wished he could weep more, that he might rouse the people to a due sense of the hand of God. But even the desert, without c…
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13th Century
Catholic
1. Here, the author speaks of the wretched condition of the people regarding their punishment.
He first speaks about the sentence, an…
