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He then adds, If thou refuse to go forth, this is the word which God hath shewed to me Jeremiah again declares that Zedekiah resisted in vain, because he kicked, as it is said, against the goad, for he could not possibly escape from coming into the hand of his enemies; which, when done, then neither the city nor the Temple would be spared. But the Prophet repeats again, that it had been shewn to him what to speak, he then spoke not in his own name, but by God’ command; which, it may be, was not then given him: but the Prophet knew that God’ decree, of which he had been the herald, could not be abolished. He then says, that this word had been shewed to him by God, even what follows —