John Trapp on Jeremiah 20:14

Ver. 14. Curſed be the day wherin I was born] What a ſuddain change of his note is here? out of the ſame mouth proceedeth bleſſing and curſing: My brethren, ſaith James, theſe things ought not ſo to be, Jam. 3.10. But here humane weakneſs prevailed: and this part of the Chapter hath much of man in it. The beſt have their outburſts: and as there be white teeth in the blackeſt Blackmore, and again a black bill in the whiteſt ſwan: ſo the worſt have ſomething in them to be commended; and the beſt, to be condemned. See on ver. 7. Some of the Fathers ſeek to excuſe Jeremy altogether: but that can hardly be, neither needeth it. Origen ſaith that the day of his birth was paſt, and therefore nothing now: ſo that curſing it, he curſed nothing. (This is l[illegible: 1 letter]ke thoſe amongſt us who ſay they may now without ſin ſwear by the Maſſe, becauſe it is gone out of the Country, &c.) Iſidor. that Jeremie's curſing is but conditional, if any let that day be curſed, &c.