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Jer_28:13 Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast broken the yokes of wood; but thou shalt make for them yokes of iron.
Ver. 13. Thou hast broken the yokes of wood.] That were weaker and lighter;
“ Nunc graviora feres. ”
But thou shalt make for them yokes of iron.] Thou, Jeremiah shalt, for a type of a cruel, hard, and strong bondage. Bonfinius {a} writeth of the Hungarians, that they are not to be handled gently, or kindly dealt with, sed virga ferrea in obsequio continendos esse, but kept in order with a rod of iron. Such were these refractory Jews; but they had enough of it ere God had done with them.
{a} Hungar. rer. decad. 4, lib. ix.