Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 2:10
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Jeremiah2:10
10 For pass over the isles of Chittim , and see, and send unto Kedar , and consider diligently, and see if there be such a thing .
A Synecdochical expression extending to all Isles in the Mediterranean Sea, or any other the neighbouring coasts, for the Hebrews call all People, that are separated from them by the Mediterranean Sea, Islanders, because they come to them by Shipping; see of Chittim, Isa. 23.1.
Understand Arabia, that lay East, South-East of Iudea as Chittim did more North or North-West, q. d. go from North to South, East to West, and make the experiment, look to Chittim the most Civilized, or Kedar the most Barbarous, yet neither have changed their gods.
Not that they were to pass over locally, or send Messengers thither actually, but cast your eyes thither, and make your observations, by what you have ever seen, or heard, did you ever hear of such a prodigious thing, if you should either go, or send, you will find it so.
Marginal references: Or, over t[illegible: 1 letter].
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