Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Jeremiah 13:1

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1. put it upon thy loins, &c.—expressing the close intimacy wherewith Jehovah had joined Israel and Judah to Him ( :- ). linen —implying it was the inner garment next the skin, not the outer one. put it not in water —signifying the moral filth of His people, like the literal filth of a garment worn constantly next the skin, without being washed ( Jeremiah 13:10 ). GROTIUS understands a garment not bleached, but left in its native roughness, just as Judah had no beauty, but was adopted by the sole grace of God ( Jeremiah 13:10- : ). "Neither wast thou washed in water, " &c. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-4" class="com-number"

Pericope (part_of)

• part_of pericope/per-jer-13-001

절 (explains)

bible-text/jer-13-1

Source

• source-manifest/jfb — Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (PD)
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