Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 1:14
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Jeremiah1:14
14 Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land .
Explained this Vision.
i. e. From Babylon a Metonymie of the subject, for though it lye East-ward, yet it is North from Ierusalem as lying 4 Degrees more from the Equinoctial. See ver. 13.
It shall be withheld, or restrained no longer in my treasure I will let it out, viz. That evil of punishment represented by the fire.
Though God gave almost all the then known World to the King of Babylon, yet here he understands the Land of Iudea, chap. 25.9.
Marginal references: chap. 4.6. and 6.1.; Heb. be opened.
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