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Two and twenty lectures upon the five first chapters of Jeremiah With prayers annexed,…Tvvo and tvventie lectures vpon the fiue first chapters of Ieremiah With prayers annexed,…
Two and twenty lectures upon the five first chapters of Jeremiah With prayers annexed, at the end of every lecture: by Master John Calvin. Which being faithfully collected form him as he uttered them in Latin, in the schools of Geneva, were afterwards translated into French: and now newly turned out of French, into English, with a table at the end, containing the sum and scope of every lecture.Tvvo and tvventie lectures vpon the fiue first chapters of Ieremiah With prayers annexed, at the end of euery lecture: by Master Iohn Caluin. Which being faithfully collected form him as hee vttered them in Latine, in the schooles of Geneua, were afterwards translated into French: and now newly turned out of French, into English, with a table at the end, containing the summe and scope of euery lecture.
London: printed by Felix Kyngston for Nathanael Newbery, 1620
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Vers. 14. Is Israel a servant, or is he borne in the house? why is he made a prey? 15 The Lions shall roar, or, yell upon him: some translate Lions whelps; and the word here used, oft times signifies, young Lions; but then especially, when it is joined with other words of the same kind: otherwise being used by it self, I always interpret it generally, for Lions; they made their voice to be heard: they brought his land to desolation, his cities are burned, or, destroyed, without an inhabitant. 16 The sons of Neph also, that is to say, of Memphis: for the Hebrews call the chief City of Egypt, Memphis, and Thaphnes; or, according to the Greeks, Thapis, shall break thine head. 17 *Hast thou not procured these things unto thy self, because thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, when he led thee by the way?
Vers. 14. Is Israell a seruant, or is he borne in the house? why is he made a prey? 15 The Lions shall roare, or, yell vpon him: some translate Lions whelps; and the word here vsed, oft times signifies, young Lions; but then especially, when it is ioyned with other words of the same kind: otherwise being vsed by it selfe, I alwayes interpret it generally, for Lions; they made their voice to be heard: they brought his land to desolation, his cities are burned, or, destroyed, without an inhabitant. 16 The sonnes of Neph also, that is to say, of Memphis: for the Hebrews call the chiefe City of Egypt, Memphis, and Thaphnes; or, according to the Greekes, Thapis, shall breake thine head. 17 *Hast thou not procured these things vnto thy selfe, because thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, when he led thee by the way?
- *or, hath not this been done unto thee.or, hath not this been done vnto thee.
WE must read all these four verses together, because the Prophet in the first of them shows, that the Jews were not thus miserable, in their first estate, but it proceeded from a new cause: and in the latter verse