FOR THE PUBLICATION OF TRANSLATIONS OF THE WORKS OF JOHN CALVIN, Acting and Editorial Secretary, Robert Pitcairn, F.S.A. Scot, Calvin Office, 9, Northumberland Street, Edinburgh. COMMENTARIES 22113 ON THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET JEREMIAH AND THE LAMENTATIONS. BY JOHN CALVIN. TRANSLATED FROM THE LATIN, AND EDITED BY THE REV. JOHN OWEN, VICAR OF THRUSSINGTON, LEICESTERSHIRE. VOLUME SECOND. EDINBURGH: PRINTED FOR THE CALVIN TRANSLATION SOCIETY. M.DCCC.LI. AN INTERPRETER (CALVIN) OF PRIME NOTE."-Gataker. 46 I KNOW NO MAN, SINCE THE APOSTLES' DAYS, WHOM I VALUE AND HONOUR MORE THAN CALVIN, AND WHOSE JUDGMENT IN ALL THINGS, ONE WITH ANOTHER, I MORE ESTEEM AND COME NEARER TO."-Richard Baxter. [Entered at Stationers' Hall.] "HOWEVER MEN MAY DIFFER WITH REGARD TO THE CORRECTNESS, OR OTHERWISE, OF CALVIN'S OPINIONS AS TO GOD'S MIND RESPECTING US HIS CREATURES, THERE IS BUT ONE SENTIMENT OF HIS VALUE AS A CRITIC AND EXPOUNDER."-Dr. Lewellin, Principal of St. David's College, Lampeter. EDINBURGH: PRINTED BY T. CONSTABLE, PRINTER TO HER MAJESTY. COMMENTARIES ON THE PROPHET JEREMIAH. Lecture Thirty-Ninth. CHAPTER X. 1. Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel; 2. Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. 1. Audite verbum quod loquitur (sermonem quem profert) Jehova ad vos, domus Israel: 2. Sic dicit Jehova, Viam gentium ne didiceritis, et à signis cœlorum ne metuatis; quoniam metuunt ab illis gentes. Though he had, JEREMIAH enters here on a new subject. no doubt, taught this truth often, yet I consider it as distinct from what has gone before; for he begins here a new attack on those superstitions to which the Jews were then extremely addicted. He exhorts them first to hear the word of Jehovah; for they had so hardened themselves in the errors which they had derived from the Gentiles, and the contagion had so prevailed, that they could not be easily drawn away from them. This, then, is the reason why he used a sort of preface, and said, Hear ye the word of Jehovah, which he speaks to you, O house of Israel.1 He then mentions the error in which the Chaldeans and the Egyptians were involved; for they were, we know, very attentive observers of the stars. And this is expressly stated, 'Here the preceding lecture ends in the original; but in order to keep the chapters distinct, this section has been transferred to the present lecA similar arrangement is adopted as to the last lecture in this volume.-Ed. ture. |