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Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 16:16

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Jeremiah16:16

16 ¶ Behold I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and after I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks .

Though some Interpreters make these words a promise either of Gods restauration of this people, and making use of Cyrus who as a Fisherman or Huntsman, by his Proclamation fetched the Iewes out of all parts of his dominions, to return to Hierusalem: Or of the Calling of Gods Elect by the Apostles, who were Gods Fishermen, and went up and down preaching the Gospel in all places: yet the next verse rather guideth us to interpret it as a threatning, and by these Fishermen and Huntsmen, to understand all those Enemies whom God made use of to destroy these Iews, hunting them out of all holes and covers wheresoever they should fly, and take Sanctuary.

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