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Jer_18:3 Then I went down to the potter’s house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.
Ver. 3. Then I went down to the potter’s house.] {a} God’s commands must be obeyed without sciscitation. Jeremiah saw that verbal teaching without signs would not work upon his hearers; he is therefore ready to do anything, or to go any whither, for their eternal good.
And, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.] So the poet -
“ Amphora coepit
Institui, currente rota, cur urceus exit? ”
- Hor. De Art. Poet.
{a} Officiose paret.