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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Jeremiah 8:8 - 8:8
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law ... with us - (Rom 2:17). Possessing the law, on which they prided themselves, the Jews might have become the wisest of nations; but by their neglecting its precepts, the law became given “in vain,” as far as they were concerned.
scribes - copyists. “In vain” copies were multiplied. Maurer translates, “The false pen of the scribes hath converted it [the law] into a lie.” See Margin, which agrees with Vulgate.