Bullinger Companion Bible Notes - Lamentations 3:1 - 3:1

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Bullinger Companion Bible Notes - Lamentations 3:1 - 3:1


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This chapter contains twenty-two verses: each verse having three lines: each line beginning with the same letter: and so, onward to the end of the alphabet.



I am the man. The prophet is representative of the nation, and speaks in the name of the whole. He is also typical and prophetical of Another, Who, in after years, took on Himself and bore the nation's sin. App-85. The chapter must be read in connection with the Passion Psalms (Psa_22:69, Psa_22:88). The Figure of speech is Prosopopoeia (App-6), by which the nation speaks as one man.



man = strong man. Hebrew. geber. App-14.



affliction: or, humiliation.