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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Jeremiah 18:15 - 18:15
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Because - rather, “And yet”; in defiance of the natural order of things.
forgotten me - (Jer 2:32). This implies a previous knowledge of God, whereas He was unknown to the Gentiles; the Jews’ forgetting of God, therefore, arose from determined perversity.
they have caused ... to stumble - namely the false prophets and idolatrous priests have.
ancient paths - (Jer 6:16): the paths which their pious ancestors trod. Not antiquity indiscriminately, but the example of the fathers who trod the right way, is here commended.
them - the Jews.
not cast up - not duly prepared: referring to the raised center of the road. Calvin translates, “not trodden.” They had no precedent of former saints to induce them to devise for themselves a new worship.