John Trapp on Jeremiah 2:23
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Jeremiah2:23
Ver. 23. How canſt thou ſay I am not polluted?] q. d. With what face? but that ſin hath oaded an impudence in thy face.
I have not gone after Baalius] The whole crew of Heathen-dieties (Lords or Maſters the word ſignifieth) which Cicero ſaith were but men,De not. deor. their Temples were their ſepulchers, and their religion ſuperſtition. He further wiſheth, that he could as eaſily diſcern the true religion, as diſcover the falſe.
See thy way in the vally] Of Ben-Hinnom, Where thou haſt ſacrificed thy children to Moloch thy chief Baal: Sol & homo generant hominem. that is, ſay ſome, to the Sun, as to the univerſal cauſe ſtrongly concurring to the generation of their children ſo ſacrificed.
Thou art a ſwift Dromedary] That runneth a madding after her mate: ſo doſt thou after Idols: Confer 1 Cor. 12.2.
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