Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Jeremiah 50:20
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20. The specification of "Israel," as well as Judah, shows the reference is to times yet to come. iniquity . . . none —not merely idolatry, which ceased among the Jews ever since the Babylonian captivity, but chiefly their rejection of Messiah. As in a cancelled debt, it shall be as if it had never been; God, for Christ's sake, shall treat them as innocent ( :- ). Without cleansing away of sin, remission of punishment would be neither to the honor of God nor to the highest interests of the elect. whom I reserve —the elect "remnant" ( Isaiah 1:9 ). The "residue" ( Zechariah 14:2 ; Zechariah 13:8 ; Zechariah 13:9 ). return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-21" class="com-number"
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