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Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 32:3

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Jeremiah32:3

3 For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying , Wherefore dost thou prophesie, and say, Thus saith the LORD, Behold I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it.

We no where read that Zedekiah immediately commanded Ieremiah to be imprisoned, he seemeth rather to have been favourable to Ieremiah, and judicious interpreters think his present prison was a favourable prison, but God accounteth Princes to do that which their Ministers or subordinate Magistrates do with their connivance, and without their hinderance. Though it be wild Divinity for any to say, that inferiour Ministers or Subjects are excused by the command of the superiour, and the guilt lyeth only on them; yet it is as wild to say, they contract no guilt by the extravagant acts of subordinate Magistrates whom they put in place, and can punish, and remove from their places.

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