Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 11:16
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Jeremiah11:16
16 The LORD called thy name, A green olive-tree, fair, and of goodly fruit : with the noise of a great tumult, he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken .
That is, the Lord fixed thee when he brought thee first into Canaan, in a beautiful flourishing state and condition, so as thou wert in a capacity both to have done thy self much good, and to have brought him much glory, like a beautiful fair Olive-Tree, fit to bear fair and goodly fruit.
But thou hast so behaved thy self, that the Lord is altering the course of his Providence to thee, he that planted thee is about to pluck thee up. God is about to kindle a fire which will burn thee up, and to break thy branches, there is nothing more usual in Prophetical Writings then to have things, yet to come, expressed as if past, because of the certainty of them; they being what shall as certainly be, as if already done.
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