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The Desolation of Jerusalem. . 1 Thus saith the LORD , Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests; 2 And go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the east gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee, 3 And say, Hear ye the word of the LORD , O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, the which whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle. 4 Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents; 5 They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind: 6 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD , that this place shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter. 7 And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth. 8 And I will make this city desolate, and a hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof. 9 And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them. The corruption of man having made it necessary that precept should be upon precept, and line upon line (so unapt are we to receive, and so very apt to let slip, the things of God), the grace of God has provided that there shall be, accordingly, precept upon precept, and line upon line, that those who are irreclaimable may be inexcusable. For this reason the prophet is here sent with a message to the same purport with what he had often delivered, but with some circumstances that might make it the more taken notice of, a thing which ministers should study, for a little circumstance may sometimes be a great advantage, and those that would win souls must be wise. I. He must take of the elders and chief men, both in church and state, to be his auditors and witnesses to what he said-- the ancients of the people and the ancients of the priests, the most eminent men both in the magistracy and in the ministry, that they might be faithful witnesses to record, as those Isaiah 8:2 . It is strange that these great men should be at the beck of a poor prophet, and obey his summons to attend him out of the city, they know not whither and they knew not why. But, though the generality of the elders were disaffected to him, yet it is likely that there were some few among them who looked upon him as a prophet of the Lord, and would pay this respect to the heavenly vision. Note, Persons of rank and figure have an opportunity of honouring God, by a diligent attendance on the ministry of the word and other divine institutions; and they ought to think it an honour, and no disparagement to themselves, yea, though the circumstances be mean and despicable. It is certain that the greatest of men is less than the least of the ordinances of God. II. He must go to the valley of the son of Hinnom, and deliver this message there; for the word of the Lord is not bound to any one place; as good a sermon may be preached in the valley of Tophet as in the gate of the temple. Christ preached on a mountain and out of a ship. This valley lay partly on the south side of Jerusalem, but the prophet's way to it was by the entry on the east gate--the sun gate ( Jeremiah 19:2 ; Jeremiah 19:2 ), so some render it, and suppose it to look not towards the sun-rising, but the noon sun-- the potter's gate, so some. This sermon must be preached in that place, in the valley of the son of Hinnom, 1. Because there they had been guilty of the vilest of their idolatries, the sacrificing of their children to Moloch, a horrid piece of impiety, which the sight of the place might serve to remind them of and upbraid them with. 2. Because there they should feel the sorest of their calamities; there the greatest slaughter should be made among them; and, it being the common sink of the city, let them look upon it and see what a miserable spectacle this magnificent city would be when it should be all like the valley of Tophet. God bids him go thither, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee, when thou comest thither; whereby it appears (as Mr. Gataker well observed) that God's messages were frequently not revealed to the prophets before the very instant of time wherein they were to deliver them. III. He must give general notice of a general ruin now shortly coming upon Judah and Jerusalem, Jeremiah 19:3 ; Jeremiah 19:3 . He must, as those that make proclamation, begin with an Oyes: Hear you the word of the Lord, though it be a terrible word, for you may thank yourselves if it be so. Both rulers and ruled must attend to it, at their peril; the kings of Judah, the king and his sons, the king and his princes and privy-counsellors, must hear the word of the King of kings, for, high as they are, he is above them. The inhabitants of Jerusalem also must hear what God has to say to them. Both princes and people have contributed to the national guilt and must concur in the national repentance, or they will both share in the national ruin. Let them all know that the Lord of hosts, who is therefore able to do what he threatens, though he is the God of Israel, nay, because he is so, will therefore punish them in the first place for their iniquities ( Amos 3:2 ): He will bring evil upon this place (upon Judah and Jerusalem ) so surprising, and so dreadful, that whosoever hears it, his ears shall tingle; whosoever hears the prediction of it, hears the report and representation of it, it shall make such an impression of terror upon him that he shall still think he hears it sounding in his ears and shall not be able to get it out of his mind. The ruin of Eli's house is thus described ( 1 Samuel 3:11 ), and of Jerusalem, 2 Kings 21:12 . IV. He must plainly tell them what their sins were for which God had this controversy with them, Jeremiah 19:4 ; Jeremiah 19:5 . They are charged with apostasy from God ( They have forsaken me ) and abuse of the privileges of the visible church, and which they had been dignified-- They have estranged this place. Jerusalem (the holy city), the temple (the holy house), which was designed for the honour of God and the support of his kingdom among men, they had alienated from those purposes, and (as some render the word) they had strangely abused. They had so polluted both with their wickedness that God had disowned both, and abandoned them to ruin. He charges them with an affection for and the adoration of false gods, such as neither they nor their fathers have known, such as never had recommended themselves to their belief and esteem by any acts of power or goodness done for them or their ancestors, as that God had abundantly done whom they forsook; yet they took them at a venture for their gods; nay, being fond of change and novelty, they liked them the better for their being upstarts, and new fashions in religion were as grateful to their fancies as in other things. They also stand charged with murder, wilful murder, from malice prepense: They have filled this place with the blood of innocents. It was Manasseh's sin ( 2 Kings 24:4 ), which the Lord would not pardon. Nay, as if idolatry and murder, committed separately, were not bad enough and affront enough to God and man, they have put them together, have consolidated them into one complicated crime, that of burning their children in the fire to Baal ( Jeremiah 19:5 ; Jeremiah 19:5 ), which was the most insolent defiance to all the laws both of natural and revealed religion that ever mankind was guilty of; and by it they openly declared that they loved their new gods better than ever they loved the true God, though they were such cruel task-masters that they required human sacrifices (inhuman I should call them), which the Lord Jehovah, whose all lives and souls are, never demanded from his worshippers; he never spoke of such a thing, nor came it into his mind. See Jeremiah 7:31 ; Jeremiah 7:31 . V. He must endeavour to affect them with the greatness of the desolation that was coming upon them. He must tell them (as he had done before, Jeremiah 7:32 ; Jeremiah 7:32 ) that this valley of the son of Hinnom shall acquire a new name, the valley of slaughter ( Jeremiah 19:6 ; Jeremiah 19:6 ), for ( Jeremiah 19:7 ; Jeremiah 19:7 ) multitudes shall fall there by the sword, when either they sally out upon the besiegers and are repulsed or attempt to make their escape and are seized: They shall fall before their enemies, who not only endeavour to make themselves masters of their houses and estates, but have such an implacable enmity to them that they seek their lives; they thirst after their blood, and, when they are dead, will not allow a cartel for the burying of the slain, but their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven and beasts of the earth. What a dismal place will the valley of Tophet be then! And as for those that remain within the city, and will not capitulate with the besiegers, they shall perish for want of food, when first they have eaten the flesh of their sons and daughters, and dearest friends, through the straitness wherewith their enemies shall straiten them, Jeremiah 19:9 ; Jeremiah 19:9 . This was threatened in the law as an instance of the extremity to which the judgments of God should reduce them ( Leviticus 26:29 ; Deuteronomy 28:53 ) and was accomplished, Lamentations 4:10 . And, lastly, the whole city shall be desolate, the houses laid in ashes, the inhabitants slain or taken prisoners; there shall be no resort to it, nor any thing in it but what looks rueful and horrid; so that every one that passes by shall be astonished ( Jeremiah 19:8 ; Jeremiah 19:8 ), as he had said before, Jeremiah 18:16 ; Jeremiah 18:16 . That place which holiness had made the joy of the whole earth sin had made the reproach and shame of the whole earth. VI. He must assure them that all their attempts to prevent and avoid this ruin, so long as they continued impenitent and unreformed, would be fruitless and vain ( Jeremiah 19:7 ; Jeremiah 19:7 ): I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem (of the princes and senators of Judah and Jerusalem) in this place, in the royal palace, which lay on the south side of the city, not far from the place where the prophet now stood. Note, There is no fleeing from God's justice but by fleeing to his mercy. Those that will not make good God's counsel, by humbling themselves under his mighty hand, shall find that God will make void their counsel and blast their projects, which they think ever so well concerted for their own preservation. There is no counsel or strength against the Lord. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verses-10-15" class="com-number"
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**예루살렘의 황폐 선고**
> "여호와께서 이렇게 말씀하셨습니다. 가서 토기장이의 질그릇을 사고, 백성의 장로들과 제사장의 장로들 중 몇 사람을 데리고 힌놈의 아들 골짜기로 나가라. 그 골짜기는 동문 입구 곁에 있다. 거기서 내가 네게 말할 것들을 선포하라."(렘 19:1-2)
인간의 타락으로 인해 교훈 위에 교훈이, 명령 위에 명령이 필요하게 되었다. 하나님의 말씀을 받아들이는 데 둔하고 잊어버리기 쉬운 우리의 본성 때문이다. 하나님의 은혜는 이에 맞춰 끊임없이 교훈과 명령을 공급하신다. 이는 고칠 수 없는 자들에게는 변명의 여지를 없애기 위함이다. 따라서 선지자는 같은 취지의 메시지를 다시 전달하되, 더욱 주목을 끌 만한 방식으로 하도록 지시받는다. 이는 사역자들이 연구해야 할 점이다. 작은 장치 하나가 큰 유익이 될 수 있으며, 영혼을 얻으려는 자는 지혜로워야 하기 때문이다.
**I. 선지자는 장로들과 지도자들을 청중이자 증인으로 데려가야 했다.** 백성의 장로들과 제사장의 장로들, 즉 관료와 성직자 가운데 가장 탁월한 이들을 데리고 가야 했다. 그래야 그들이 신실한 증인이 될 수 있었기 때문이다(사 8:2 참조). 이 위대한 인물들이 가난한 선지자의 부름에 응하여 어디인지도 모르는 곳으로, 왜 가는지도 모른 채 따라갔다는 것이 놀랍다. 그러나 장로들 중에는 예레미야를 주의 선지자로 여기고 이 하늘의 소명을 존중하는 소수가 있었을 것이다. 지위와 신분이 높은 사람들은 말씀 사역과 하나님의 제도에 성실히 참여함으로써 하나님을 영화롭게 할 기회를 가진다. 그들은 이것을 영예로, 결코 자신의 품위를 떨어뜨리는 일이 아닌 것으로 여겨야 한다. 아무리 위대한 사람일지라도 하나님의 가장 작은 규례보다 못하다는 것은 분명한 사실이다.
**II. 선지자는 힌놈의 아들 골짜기로 가서 그 메시지를 전해야 했다.** 주의 말씀은 어떤 장소에 묶여 있지 않다. 도벳 골짜기에서도 성전 문에서만큼 좋은 설교를 할 수 있다. 그리스도께서도 산에서, 배 위에서 설교하셨다. 이 골짜기는 예루살렘 남쪽에 위치해 있었는데, 선지자는 동문(해 문, 혹은 토기장이 문이라고도 함)을 통해 그곳으로 갔다. 이 장소에서 설교해야 했던 이유는 두 가지이다.
1. 바로 그곳에서 그들이 가장 극악한 우상 숭배, 즉 몰렉에게 자녀를 제물로 바치는 일을 저질렀기 때문이다. 그 장소를 보면서 그 죄를 상기하고 부끄러움을 느낄 수 있도록 하기 위함이다.
2. 바로 그곳에서 가장 혹독한 재앙을 당할 것이기 때문이다. 그곳에서 대규모 살육이 일어날 것이다. 그 성의 공동 쓰레기장이었던 그곳을 바라보며, 이 웅장한 도성이 결국 도벳 골짜기와 같은 처참한 모습이 될 것임을 알게 해야 했다.
**III. 선지자는 유다와 예루살렘에 임박한 전반적 멸망을 공개적으로 선포해야 했다.** 선지자는 이렇게 외쳐야 했다. "유다 왕들과 예루살렘 주민들이여, 주의 말씀을 들으십시오." 그것이 두렵고 떨리는 말씀일지라도 들어야 한다. 스스로 그렇게 만들었기 때문이다. 통치자와 백성 모두 이 메시지에 귀를 기울여야 한다. 유다 왕들, 왕과 그 아들들, 왕과 그 신하들과 고문들도 만왕의 왕의 말씀을 들어야 한다. 아무리 높은 자라 해도 그분은 더 높이 계신 분이다. 예루살렘 주민들도 하나님이 그들에게 하실 말씀을 들어야 한다. 왕이든 백성이든 모두 국가적 죄에 기여했으므로 국가적 회개에 함께해야 한다. 그렇지 않으면 둘 다 국가적 멸망을 함께 당할 것이다.
만군의 주님, 따라서 그가 위협하는 것을 행할 능력이 있으신 분, 이스라엘의 하나님이신 그분은 이 장소에 재앙을 내리실 것이다. 이 소식을 듣는 자는 귀가 쩌렁쩌렁 울릴 것이다(암 3:2; 삼상 3:11; 왕하 21:12 참조).
**IV. 선지자는 하나님이 그들과 다투시는 이유인 그들의 죄를 분명히 알려야 했다.** 그들은 하나님을 저버렸고, 이 장소를 소외시켰다는 죄로 기소되었다. 예루살렘과 성전은 하나님의 영광을 위해, 인간 가운데 그의 나라를 지탱하기 위해 설계되었다. 그러나 그들은 이를 그 목적에서 분리시켰고, 심하게 남용했다. 그들은 이방 신들을 사랑하고 숭배했다. 그 신들은 그들이나 그들의 조상들이 알지도 못하던 것들이었다. 그 하나님과 달리 자신들을 위해 권능과 선을 베풀어 그들의 믿음을 얻은 것이 전혀 없었다. 그러나 그들은 아무런 근거도 없이 그것들을 신으로 삼았다. 오히려 변화와 새것을 좋아하여 새로운 것들을 더 좋아했다. 그들은 또한 고의적인 살인죄, 악의에서 비롯된 살인죄를 저질렀다. "그들이 이곳을 무고한 피로 가득 채웠다"(왕하 24:4). 더 나아가, 우상 숭배와 살인을 따로따로 저지르는 것도 모자라 두 가지를 하나의 복합 범죄로 결합시켰다. 바알에게 자녀를 불에 태워 제물로 바치는 것이 그것이다(렘 19:5). 이는 자연법과 계시법 모두에 대한 가장 극단적인 도전이었다. 그들은 이 새로운 신들을 참 하나님보다 더 사랑한다는 것을 공개적으로 드러냈다. 비록 그 잔인한 신들이 인간 제물, 아니 반인간적인 제물을 요구하는 혹독한 주인이었음에도 불구하고. 반면 만물의 생명과 영혼을 소유하신 주 하나님은 그런 것을 그의 예배자들에게 결코 요구하신 적이 없었다(렘 7:31 참조).
**V. 선지자는 임박한 재앙의 무서움을 청중에게 깊이 느끼게 해야 했다.** 그는 앞서 예언한 것처럼(렘 7:32), 힌놈의 아들 골짜기가 새 이름을 얻게 될 것이라고 알려야 했다. 즉 그곳이 '학살의 골짜기'가 될 것이라고(렘 19:6). 이는 많은 사람이 그곳에서 칼에 쓰러질 것이기 때문이다(렘 19:7). 포위군에게 돌격하다가 격퇴당하거나, 도망치려다 잡히는 자들이 그리 될 것이다. 그들은 단지 집과 재산을 빼앗으려는 적뿐만 아니라 목숨을 노리는 자들 앞에서 쓰러질 것이다. 시신들은 공중의 새와 땅의 짐승의 밥이 될 것이다. 그 도벳 골짜기가 얼마나 처참한 곳이 될 것인가! 성안에 남아 포위군에게 항복하지 않는 자들은 식량 부족으로 죽을 것이다. 원수들이 그들을 극도로 죄어오는 포위 속에서 그들은 먼저 자기 아들딸의 살, 사랑하는 친구들의 살을 먹게 될 것이다(렘 19:9). 이것은 율법에서 하나님의 심판이 그들을 극한 상황으로 몰아갈 때의 징조로 예고된 것이었다(레 26:29; 신 28:53). 그리고 실제로 성취되었다(애 4:10). 마지막으로, 온 성이 황폐해지고, 집들은 재가 되며, 주민들은 죽거나 포로로 잡혀갈 것이다. 그곳에는 무서하고 소름 끼치는 것들만 남아, 지나가는 사람마다 경악하고 비웃을 것이다(렘 19:8; 렘 18:16 참조). 거룩함으로 온 땅의 기쁨이 되었던 그 장소가 죄로 말미암아 온 땅의 치욕과 수치가 되었다.
**VI. 선지자는 그들의 모든 도피 시도가 회개와 개혁 없이는 헛될 것임을 확언해야 했다.** "내가 이 장소에서 유다와 예루살렘의 계략을 무너뜨릴 것이다"(렘 19:7). 하나님의 의로운 심판에서 도망치는 유일한 길은 그의 자비로 달려가는 것이다. 하나님의 계획을 이루지 않으려는, 즉 전능하신 분의 손 아래 자신을 낮추지 않으려는 자들은, 하나님이 그들의 계획을 무너뜨리시고 자기 보전을 위해 아무리 잘 세운 계획도 수포로 돌아가게 하심을 발견할 것이다. 주를 거슬러서는 어떤 계략도 힘도 없다.
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J E R E M I A H. CHAP. XIX. The same melancholy theme is the subject of this chapter that was of those foregoing--the approaching ruin of Judah and Jerusalem for their sins. This Jeremiah had often foretold; here he has particularly full orders to foretel it again. I. He must set their sins in order before them, as he had often done, especially their idolatry, Jeremiah 19:4 ; Jeremiah 19:5 . II. He must describe the particular judgments which were now coming apace upon them for these sins, Jeremiah 19:6-9 . III. He must do this in the valley of Tophet, with great solemnity, and for some particular reasons, Jeremiah 19:2 ; Jeremiah 19:3 . IV. He must summon a company of the elders together to be witnesses of this, Jeremiah 19:1 . V. He must confirm this, and endeavour to affect his hearers with it, by a sign, which was the breaking of an earthen bottle, signifying that they should be dashed to pieces like a potter's vessel, Jeremiah 19:10-13 . VI. When he had done this in the valley of Tophet he ratified it in the court of the temple, Jeremiah 19:14 ; Jeremiah 19:15 . Thus were all likely means tried to awaken this stupid senseless people to repentance, that their ruin might be prevented; but all in vain. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verses-1-9" class="com-number"
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예레미야 19장의 주제는 앞 장들과 동일하다. 유다와 예루살렘이 죄로 말미암아 멸망에 이른다는 것이다. 예레미야는 이미 여러 차례 이 사실을 예고한 바 있는데, 여기서 하나님은 그에게 다시 한번 특별한 지시를 내리신다.
I. 선지자는 백성의 죄, 특히 우상 숭배를 낱낱이 열거해야 한다(4-5절).
II. 선지자는 이 죄들로 말미암아 속히 임박할 특별한 심판들을 선포해야 한다(6-9절).
III. 선지자는 이 일을 힌놈의 아들 골짜기에서 엄숙하게 행해야 한다(2-3절).
IV. 선지자는 장로들을 증인으로 불러 모아야 한다(1절).
V. 선지자는 질그릇을 깨뜨리는 표징으로 이 심판을 확증하고 청중의 마음에 깊이 새겨야 한다. 이는 백성이 토기장이의 그릇처럼 산산이 부서질 것을 의미한다(10-13절).
VI. 선지자는 힌놈의 골짜기에서 이 일을 마친 후 성전 뜰에서 다시 그 말을 확정했다(14-15절).
이처럼 미련하고 완고한 백성을 회개로 이끌기 위해 모든 수단이 동원되었다. 그러나 모두 헛된 일이었다.
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The Desolation of Jerusalem. . 10 Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee, 11 And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaketh a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury them in Tophet, till there be no place to bury. 12 Thus will I do unto this place, saith the LORD , and to the inhabitants thereof, and even make this city as Tophet: 13 And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods. 14 Then came Jeremiah from Tophet, whither the LORD had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the LORD 's house; and said to all the people, 15 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear my words. The message of wrath delivered in the Jeremiah 19:1-9 is here enforced, that it might gain credit, two ways:-- I. By a visible sign. The prophet was to take along with him an earthen bottle ( Jeremiah 19:1 ; Jeremiah 19:1 ), and, when he had delivered his message, he was to break the bottle to pieces ( Jeremiah 19:10 ; Jeremiah 19:10 ), and the same that were auditors of the sermon must be spectators of the sign. He had compared this people, in the chapter before, to the potter's clay, which is easily marred in the making. But some might say, "It is past that with us; we have been made and hardened long since." "And what though you be," says he, "the potter's vessel is as soon broken in the hand of any man as the vessel while it is soft clay is marred in the potter's hand, and its case is, in this respect, much worse, that the vessel while it is soft clay, though it be marred, may be moulded again, but, after it is hardened, when it is broken it can never be pieced again." Perhaps what they see will affect them more than what they only hear talk of; that is the intention of sacramental signs, and teaching by symbols was anciently used. In the explication of this sign he must inculcate what he had before said, with a further reference to the place where this was done, in the valley of Tophet. 1. As the bottle was easily, irresistibly, and irrecoverably broken by the Chaldean army, Jeremiah 19:11 ; Jeremiah 19:11 . They depended much upon the firmness of their constitution, and the fixedness of their courage, which they thought hardened them like a vessel of brass; but the prophet shows that all that did but harden them like a vessel of earth, which, though hard, is brittle and sooner broken than that which is not so hard. Though they were made vessels of honour, still they were vessels of earth, and so they shall be made to know if they dishonour God and themselves, and serve not the purposes for which they were made. It is God himself, who made them, that resolves to unmake them: I will break this people and this city, dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel; the doom of the heathen ( Psalms 2:9 ; Revelation 2:27 ), but now Jerusalem's doom, Isaiah 30:14 . A potter's vessel, when once broken, cannot be made whole again, cannot be cured, so the word is. The ruin of Jerusalem shall be an utter ruin; no hand can repair it but his that broke it; and if they return to him, though he has torn, he will heal. 2. This was done in Tophet, to signify two things:-- (1.) That Tophet should be the receptacle of the slain: They shall bury in Tophet till there be no place to bury any more there; they shall jostle for room to lay their dead, and a very little room will then serve those who, while they lived, laid house to house and field to field. Those that would be placed alone in the midst of the earth while they were above ground, and obliged all about them to keep their distance, must lie with the multitude when they are underground, for there are innumerable before them. (2.) That Tophet should be a resemblance of the whole city ( Jeremiah 19:12 ; Jeremiah 19:12 ): I will make this city as Tophet. As they had filled the valley of Tophet with the slain which they sacrificed to their idols, so God will fill the whole city with the slain that shall fall as sacrifices to the justice of God. We read ( 2 Kings 23:10 ) of Josiah's defiling Tophet, because it had been abused to idolatry, which he did (as should seem, Jeremiah 19:14 ; Jeremiah 19:14 ) by filling it with the bones of men; and, whatever it was before, thenceforward it was looked upon as a detestable place. Dead carcases, and other filth of the city, were carried thither, and a fire was continually kept there for the burning of it. This was the posture of that valley when Jeremiah was sent thither to prophesy; and so execrable a place was it looked upon to be that, in the language of our Saviour's time, hell was called, in allusion to it, Gehenna, the valley of Hinnom. "Now" (says God) "since that blessed reformation, when Tophet was defiled, did not proceed as it ought to have done, nor prove a thorough reformation, but though the idols in Tophet were abolished and made odious those in Jerusalem remained, therefore will I do with the city as Josiah did by Tophet, fill it with the bodies of men, and make it a heap of rubbish." Even the houses of Jerusalem, and those of the kings of Judah, the royal palaces not excepted, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet ( Jeremiah 19:13 ; Jeremiah 19:13 ), and for the same reason, because of the idolatries that have been committed there; since they will not defile them by a reformation, God will defile them by a destruction, because upon the roofs of their houses they have burnt incense unto the host of heaven. The flat roofs of their houses were sometimes used by devout people as convenient places for prayer ( Acts 10:9 ), and by idolaters they were used as high places, on which they sacrificed to strange gods, especially to the host of heaven, the sun, moon, and stars, that there they might be so much nearer to them and have a clearer and fuller view of them. We read of those that worshipped the host of heaven upon the house-tops ( Zephaniah 1:5 ), and of altars on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, 2 Kings 23:12 . This sin upon the house-tops brought a curse into the house, which consumed it, and made it a dunghill like Tophet. II. By a solemn recognition and ratification of what he had said in the court of the Lord's house, Jeremiah 19:14 ; Jeremiah 19:15 . The prophet returned from Tophet to the temple, which stood upon the hill over that valley, and there confirmed, and probably repeated, what he had said in the valley of Tophet, for the benefit of those who had not heard it; what he had said he would stand to. Here, as often before, he both assures them of judgments coming upon them and assigns the cause of them, which was their sin. Both these are here put together in a little compass, with a reference to all that had gone before. 1. The accomplishment of the prophecies is here the judgment threatened. The people flattered themselves with a conceit that God would be better than his word, that the threatening was but to frighten them and keep them in awe a little; but the prophet tells them that they deceive themselves if they think so: For thus saith the Lord of hosts, who is able to make his words good, I will bring upon this city, and upon all her towns, all the smaller cities that belong to Jerusalem the metropolis, all the evil that I have pronounced against it. Note, Whatever men may think to the contrary, the executions of Providence will fully answer the predictions of the word, and God will appear as terrible against sin and sinners as the scripture makes him; nor shall the unbelief of men make either his promises or his threatenings of no effect or of less effect than they were thought to be of. 2. The contempt of the prophecies is here the sin charged upon them, as the procuring cause of this judgment. It is because they have hardened their necks, and would not bow and bend them to the yoke of God's commands, would not hear my words, that is, would not heed them and yield obedience to them. Note, The obstinacy of sinners in their sinful ways is altogether their own fault; if their necks are hardened, it is their own act and deed, they have hardened them; if they are deaf to the word of God, it is because they have stopped their own ears. We have need therefore to pray that God, by his grace, would deliver us from hardness of heart and contempt of his word and commandments. return to ' Top of Page ' Jeremiah Jer 18 Jeremiah Jer Jeremiah Jer 20 Footnotes: Copyright Statement These files are public domain and are a derivative of an electronic edition that is available on the Christian Classics Ethereal Library Website. Bibliographical Information Henry, Matthew. "Complete Commentary on Jeremiah 19". 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source-manifest/mhm— Matthew Henry Complete Commentary (PD)- evidence_grade: T_theological
**표징과 성전에서의 확증**
> "그때 너는 함께 온 사람들이 보는 앞에서 그 병을 깨뜨려라. 그리고 그들에게 말하라. '만군의 주님이 이렇게 말씀하셨습니다. 나는 이 백성과 이 성을 토기장이의 그릇을 부수는 것처럼 부술 것이다. 그것은 다시 온전하게 될 수 없다.'"(렘 19:10-11)
앞 구절들(1-9절)에서 전달된 진노의 메시지는 여기서 두 가지 방법으로 더 강조된다.
**I. 눈에 보이는 표징으로.** 선지자는 질그릇을 가져가야 했고(렘 19:1), 메시지를 전달한 후 그것을 산산이 부숴야 했다(렘 19:10). 설교를 들은 자들이 그 표징을 직접 보아야 했다. 선지자는 앞 장에서 이 백성을 토기장이의 진흙에 비유했다. 아직 만들어지는 중이라 쉽게 망가질 수 있는 것으로. 그러나 어떤 이들은 이렇게 말할 수 있었다. "우리는 이미 만들어지고 굳어진 지 오래다." "그래서 어떻다는 것인가"라고 선지자는 말한다. "토기장이의 그릇은 진흙이 부드러울 때와 마찬가지로, 어떤 사람의 손에 의해서도 쉽게 깨진다. 그리고 그 경우는 훨씬 더 나쁘다. 부드러운 진흙은 망가져도 다시 빚을 수 있지만, 굳어진 후에는 일단 깨지면 절대로 다시 붙일 수 없다."
눈으로 보는 것이 귀로만 듣는 것보다 더 감동을 줄 수 있다. 이것이 성례적 표징의 의도이며, 상징으로 가르치는 것은 옛부터 사용되어 왔다. 이 표징을 설명하면서 선지자는 앞서 말한 것을 다시 강조하되, 이것이 행해진 장소인 도벳 골짜기와의 특별한 관계를 더해야 했다.
1. 그 병이 갈대아 군대에 의해 쉽게, 저항할 수 없이, 회복 불가능하게 깨어진 것처럼(렘 19:11). 그들은 자신들의 체질의 견고함과 고정된 용기에 많이 의존했다. 그것이 자신들을 놋 그릇처럼 단단하게 만들었다고 생각했다. 그러나 선지자는 그것이 오히려 그들을 흙 그릇처럼 만들 뿐이라고 보여준다. 딱딱하긴 해도 부서지기 쉬운, 딱딱하지 않은 것보다 더 빨리 깨지는 그릇처럼. 그들이 영예의 그릇으로 만들어졌을지라도 여전히 흙 그릇이다. 하나님을 욕되게 하고 만들어진 목적에 부합하지 않는다면 그렇게 되고 말 것이다. 그들을 만드신 하나님 자신이 그들을 무너뜨리기로 결심하셨다. "내가 이 백성과 이 성을 토기장이의 그릇처럼 부술 것이다." 이것은 이방인의 운명이었으나(시 2:9; 계 2:27), 이제는 예루살렘의 운명이 되었다(사 30:14 참조). 토기장이의 그릇은 일단 깨지면 다시 온전하게 될 수 없다. 그것을 고칠 수 없다. 예루살렘의 멸망은 완전한 멸망이다. 그것을 깨뜨리신 분의 손 외에는 아무 손도 고칠 수 없다. 그러나 그들이 그분께 돌아온다면, 비록 그가 찢었어도 고쳐 주실 것이다.
2. 이 일이 도벳에서 행해진 것은 두 가지를 암시한다.
(1) 도벳이 죽임당한 자들의 묘지가 될 것임을. "도벳에 더 이상 묻을 곳이 없을 때까지 그들이 도벳에 묻힐 것이다." 죽은 자를 안치할 자리를 차지하려 하게 될 것이다. 살아 있을 때는 땅 한가운데 홀로 있으려 하고 모든 이웃이 거리를 두도록 강요했던 자들이, 땅속에서는 군중과 함께 누워야 한다. 그들 앞에는 셀 수 없이 많은 자들이 있기 때문이다.
(2) 도벳이 온 성의 모습이 될 것임을(렘 19:12). "내가 이 성을 도벳처럼 만들 것이다." 그들이 우상들에게 제물로 바쳐 죽인 자들로 도벳 골짜기를 채운 것처럼, 하나님도 하나님의 의의 제물로 쓰러지는 자들로 온 성을 채우실 것이다.
왕하 23:10에서 요시야가 도벳을 더럽힌 것을 읽는다. 그가 그렇게 한 것은(렘 19:14에서 보이듯) 그곳을 사람의 뼈로 채움으로써였다. 그 이후 도벳은 끔찍한 장소로 여겨졌다. 성의 시신과 다른 오물들이 그곳으로 옮겨졌고, 태우기 위한 불이 계속 피워졌다. 예레미야가 그곳에서 예언하러 갔을 때 그 골짜기는 이런 상태였다. 그 장소가 너무나 가증한 것으로 여겨졌기 때문에, 우리 구주 시대의 언어에서 지옥을 힌놈 골짜기에서 따온 '게헨나'라고 불렀다. "이제 요시야가 도벳을 더럽힌 그 복된 개혁이 있은 후, 예루살렘의 우상들은 남아 있는데 도벳의 우상들만 제거되었으므로 그 개혁이 온전한 개혁이 되지 못했기 때문에, 내가 요시야가 도벳을 대한 것처럼 이 성을 다루겠다. 즉 사람의 시신들로 채우고 쓰레기 더미로 만들겠다"는 것이다. 예루살렘의 집들, 유다 왕들의 집들, 왕궁들도 예외 없이 도벳과 같이 더럽혀질 것이다(렘 19:13). 그 이유는 그곳에서도 같은 우상 숭배를 행했기 때문이다. 그들이 개혁으로 더럽히지 않았기 때문에 하나님이 멸망으로 더럽히실 것이다. 그들이 집 지붕에서 하늘의 군대에게 분향했기 때문이다. 집의 평평한 지붕은 때로 경건한 사람들이 기도하기에 편리한 장소로 사용되었다(행 10:9 참조). 그리고 우상 숭배자들은 그것을 높은 제단으로 삼아 이방 신들에게, 특히 하늘의 군대인 해와 달과 별에게 제사를 드렸다. 그곳에서 그것들에게 더 가까이, 더 선명하고 더 완전하게 볼 수 있다고 생각했기 때문이다. 집 지붕에서 하늘의 군대를 경배하는 자들(습 1:5), 아하스의 다락방 꼭대기에 있는 제단들에 대해 읽는다(왕하 23:12). 지붕 위의 이 죄가 집 안에 저주를 가져와 집을 삼키고 도벳처럼 쓰레기 더미로 만들었다.
**II. 성전 뜰에서의 엄숙한 재확인으로.** 선지자는 도벳에서 성전으로 돌아왔다. 성전은 그 골짜기 위쪽 언덕에 있었다. 그곳에서 그는 도벳 골짜기에서 한 말을 확증하고 아마도 반복했다. 그 말을 듣지 못한 자들을 위해서. 그가 한 말을 그는 고수할 것이었다(렘 19:14-15).
1. 예언의 성취가 여기서 선고된 심판이다. 백성들은 하나님이 자신의 말보다 더 나은 분이시며, 그 위협은 단지 그들을 잠시 경외심으로 복종케 하려는 것이라고 스스로를 속였다. 그러나 선지자는 그들이 스스로를 기만하고 있다고 말한다. "이는 만군의 주님이 이렇게 말씀하셨기 때문입니다. 그분은 자신의 말씀을 이루실 능력이 있으십니다. 내가 이 성과 그에 딸린 모든 성읍에 내가 그것에 대해 선포한 모든 재앙을 내릴 것이다." 사람들이 어떻게 생각하든 상관없이, 섭리의 집행은 말씀의 예언에 완전히 부합할 것이다. 하나님은 성경이 보여주는 것만큼 죄와 죄인에게 두려운 분으로 나타나실 것이다. 그분의 약속도 위협도 인간의 불신앙으로 인해 효력이 없어지거나 약해지지 않을 것이다.
2. 예언에 대한 경멸이 여기서 이 심판을 초래한 죄로 부과된다. "이는 그들이 목을 곧게 하여 하나님의 명령이라는 멍에에 구부리거나 굽히지 않으려 했기 때문이다. 내 말을 들으려 하지 않았다." 즉 그들에 주의를 기울이거나 순종하지 않았다. 죄인들이 죄된 방식에서 완고한 것은 전적으로 그들 자신의 잘못이다. 그들의 목이 굳어진 것은 그들 자신의 행위이며, 그들이 스스로 굳게 만든 것이다. 그들이 하나님의 말씀에 귀를 막은 것도 그들 자신이 귀를 막았기 때문이다. 따라서 우리는 하나님이 그의 은혜로 마음의 완고함과 그의 말씀과 계명에 대한 경멸에서 우리를 구해 달라고 기도해야 한다.
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