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John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 23:25

Jer 23:25 I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed. Ver. 25. I have dreamed, I have dreamed, ] i.e., I have a prophetic revelation in a dream. Such lying prophets were the ancient and modern enthusiasts and high attainers. Messalanian heretics they were called of old, A.D. 371. read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 23:26

Jer 23:26 How long shall [this] be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, [they are] prophets of the deceit of their own heart; Ver. 26. How long shall this be in the hearts? &c., ] q.d., Will they never give over lying to the Holy Ghost, Act 5:3 and flying against the light (of their own consciences), as bats do. Nam quod argute commenti sunt, haec aiunt ex Spiritu se dicere; studio enim suis mendaciis plebi imponunt, falsumque data opera docent; a for they father... read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 23:27

Jer 23:27 Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal. Ver. 27. Which think to cause my people to forget my name. ] To drive them to atheism, which sometimes creepeth in at the back door of a reformation, "by the sleight of seducers and their cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive." Our Church is at this day pestered with atheists (who first have been Seekers,... read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 23:28

Jer 23:28 The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What [is] the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD. Ver. 28. The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream. ] Or, Let him tell it as a dream, and not as a divine revelation, making more of it than the matter comes to, and “ Laudans venales quas vult obtrudere merces. ” What are dreams ordinarily but very vanities, Ecc 5:7 Zec 10:2 pleasant follies and delusions, the... read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 23:29

Jeremiah 23:29 [Is] not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer [that] breaketh the rock in pieces? Ver. 29. Is not my word like a fire? ] As it is like solid wheat, wholesome food; 1Ti 6:3 so it is no less like fire, that most active element, called πυρ , because it is pure, saith one; and fire, because it was fair. It enlighteneth, enliveneth, warmeth, purgeth, assimilateth, aspireth, consumeth combustible matter, congregat homogenea, segregat heterogenea; so doth the... read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 23:30

Jer 23:30 Therefore, behold, I [am] against the prophets, saith the LORD, that steal my words every one from his neighbour. Ver. 30. Behold, I am against those prophets. ] Heb., Behold, I against, by an angry aposiopesis. a That steal my word every one from his neighbour. ] That filch it, either by hiding it from others, as the Popish doctors do from the common people, or by wresting it to the defence of their false doctrines, as Marcion the heretic, whom, therefore, Tertullian fitly... read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 23:31

Jer 23:31 Behold, I [am] against the prophets, saith the LORD, that use their tongues, and say, He saith. Ver. 31. That use their tongues. ] Or, Abuse them rather, to smoothing and soothing up people in their sins: lenificant linguas, id est, blando sermone alliciunt plebem, they flatter and collogue; or tollunt linguam, they lift up their tongues, viz., by extolling themselves, and speaking magnifically of their own doing. As one hath observed of some sectarians among us, that they often... read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 23:32

Jer 23:32 Behold, I [am] against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the LORD. Ver. 32. That cause my people to err by their lies and by their lightness. ] By their lying discourses and light or loose courses. So Zep 3:4 Judges 9:4 . If these false prophets had been of a sober, grave behaviour, the... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Jeremiah 23:9

am 3399, bc 605 heart: Jeremiah 9:1, Jeremiah 14:17, Jeremiah 14:18, 2 Kings 22:19, 2 Kings 22:20, Ezekiel 9:4, Ezekiel 9:6, Daniel 8:27, Habakkuk 3:16 because: Jeremiah 5:31 like a drunken: Jeremiah 25:15-Job :, Psalms 60:3, Isaiah 6:5, Isaiah 28:1, Isaiah 29:9, Isaiah 51:21, Lamentations 3:15, Romans 7:9 Reciprocal: Psalms 60:6 - God Isaiah 9:15 - the prophet Jeremiah 2:8 - priests Jeremiah 4:19 - My bowels Jeremiah 10:21 - the pastors Ezekiel 3:15 - sat Ezekiel 13:22 - with lies Hosea... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Jeremiah 23:10

full: Jeremiah 5:7, Jeremiah 5:8, Jeremiah 7:9, Jeremiah 9:2, Ezekiel 22:9-1 Kings :, Hosea 4:2, Hosea 4:3, Malachi 3:5, 1 Corinthians 6:9, 1 Corinthians 6:10, Galatians 5:19-Ecclesiastes :, Hebrews 13:4, James 4:4 because: Zechariah 5:3, Zechariah 5:4, 1 Timothy 1:10 swearing: Heb. cursing the land: Jeremiah 12:3, Jeremiah 12:4, Jeremiah 14:2, Lamentations 1:2-Numbers :, Joel 1:10 the pleasant: Jeremiah 9:10, Psalms 107:34, Isaiah 24:6 course: or, violence Reciprocal: Isaiah 5:18 - draw... read more

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