Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 32:15

15 For thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel, Houses and fields, and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land .

Here is nothing of any seeming difficulty in these verses, but only why the Prophet commandeth Baruch to put the evidences in an Ea[illegible: 1 letter]then Vessel, wh[illegible: 1 letter]ch himself also expounds, that they might continue many dayes that is not defaced, had they been hid many dayes in the Earth, they would have been rotten, had they been above ground in a Box or Chest, they might have been lost, or taken away by the Souldiers plundering houses, or at least burnt with fire. Verse 15. The Prophet expounds Gods meaning in this command to him, and his own design, in so formal a buying of so small a purchase, especially considering, that, very probably, Ieremiah was no great purchaser, nor very greedy of purchases; he lets them know that all this was for a sign of the truth of what God had revealed to him concerning the peoples return, though after many days, (sixty years from this time) and also of the firm assent he gave to that divine Revelation, That purchases should one day be injoyed again in Iudea, and houses, fields, and vineyards in it, should be again possessed.