The Jews, contrary to the orders of God by the prophet, go into Egypt, carrying Jeremias with them. He foretells the devastation of that land by the king of Babylon.
The reliques of the Iewes, against Ieremies admonitions, goe into Aegypt, 6. carying Ieremie and Baruch with them. 8. where Ieremie prophecieth that the king of Babylon shal spoyle that land, 12. and their idoles.
1And it came to pass, that when Jeremias had made an end of speaking to the people all the words of the Lord their God, for which the Lord their God had sent him to them, all these words:E quando Geremia ebbe finito di dire al popolo tutte le parole del Signore Dio loro, le quali parole tutte il Signore Dio loro lo avea mandato a dirle ad essi,AND it came to passe, when Ieremie had finished speaking to the people al the wordes of the Lord their God, for which our Lord their God had sent him to them, al these wordes:Factum est autem, cum complesset Jeremias loquens ad populum universos sermones Domini Dei eorum, pro quibus miserat eum Dominus Deus eorum ad illos, omnia verba hæc, 2Azarias the son of Osaias, and Johanan the son of Caree, and all the proud men, made answer, saying to Jeremias: Thou tellest a lie: the Lord our God hath not sent thee, saying: Go not into Egypt, to dwell there.Disse Azaria figliuolo di Osaia, e Johanan figliuolo di Caree, e tutti gli uomini superbi a Geremia: Tu dici bugia: non ti ha mandato il Signore Dio nostro a dire: Non andate ad abitare in Egitto.Azarias the sonne of Osaias said: and Iohanan the sonne of Caree, and al the proude men, saying to Ieremie: Thou speakest a lie: the Lord our God sent thee not, saying: Goe not into Aegypt, to dwel there.dixit Azarias filius Osaiæ, et Johanan filius Caree, et omnes viri superbi, dicentes ad Jeremiam: Mendacium tu loqueris: non misit te Dominus Deus noster, dicens: Ne ingrediamini Ægyptum ut habitetis illuc. 3But Baruch the son of Nerias setteth thee on against us, to deliver us into the hands of the Chaldeans, to kill us, and to cause us to be carried away captives to Babylon.Ma Baruch figliuolo di Neria ti istiga contro di noi, per darci in man de' Caldei, e farci morire, e farci condurre a Babilonia.But Baruch the sonne of Nerias doth prouoke thee against vs, that he may deliuer vs into the handes of the Chaldees, that he may kil vs, and make vs to be transported into Babylon.Sed Baruch filius Neriæ incitat te adversum nos, ut tradat nos in manus Chaldæorum, ut interficiat nos, et traduci faciat in Babylonem. 4So Johanan the son of Caree, and all the captains of the soldiers, and all the people, obeyed not the voice of the Lord, to remain in the land of Juda.E Johanan figliuolo di Caree, e tutti i capi delle milizie, e tutto il popolo non ascoltarono la voce del Signore di dimorar nella terra di Giuda,And Iohanan the sonne of Caree, and al the princes of the men of warre, and the whole people, heard not the voice of our Lord, to abide in the Land of Iuda.Et non audivit Johanan filius Caree, et omnes principes bellatorum, et universus populus, vocem Domini, ut manerent in terra Juda.
5But Johanan the son of Caree, and all the captains of the soldiers took all the remnant of Juda, that were returned out of all nations, to which they had before been scattered, to dwell in the land of Juda:Ma e Johanan figliuolo di Caree, e tutti i capi delle milizie, prendendo seco tutti gli avanzi di Giuda, i quali da tutti i diversi luoghi, pe' quali si erano già dispersi, eran tornati ad abitare nella terra di Giuda,But Iohanan the sonne of Caree, and al the princes of the men of warre taking al the remnant of Iuda, that were returned out of al nations, to which they had before bene dispersed, to dwel in the Land of Iuda:Sed tollens Johanan filius Caree, et universi principes bellatorum, universos reliquiarum Juda, qui reversi fuerant de cunctis gentibus ad quas fuerant ante dispersi, ut habitarent in terra Juda, 6Men, and women, and children, and the king’s daughters, and every soul, which Nabuzardan the general had left with Godolias the son of Ahicam the son of Saphan, and Jeremias the prophet, and Baruch the son of Nerias.Uomini, e donne, e fanciulli, e le figlie del re, e tutte le persone lasciate da Nabuzardan capo delle milizie con Godolia figliuolo di Ahicam, figliuolo di Saphan, e Geremia profeta, e Baruch figliuolo di Neria,men, and wemen, and children, & the kinges daughters, and euerie soule, which Nabuzardan the prince of the warre had left with Godolias the sonne of Ahicam, the sonne of Saphan, and Ieremie the prophet, and Baruch the sonne of Nerias.viros, et mulieres, et parvulos, et filias regis, et omnem animam quam reliquerat Nabuzardan princeps militiæ cum Godolia filio Ahicam filii Saphan, et Jeremiam prophetam, et Baruch filium Neriæ: 7And they went into the land of Egypt, for they obeyed not the voice of the Lord: and they came as far as Taphnis.Se n'andarono nella terra d'Egitto, perchè non ubbidirono alla voce del Signore; e giunsero fino a Taphnis.And they went into the Land of Aegypt, because they obeyed not the voice of our Lord: and they came as farre as Taphnis.et ingressi sunt terram Ægypti, quia non obedierunt voci Domini, et venerunt usque ad Taphnis. 8And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias in Taphnis, saying:E il Signore parlò a Geremia in Taphnis, dicendo:And the word of our Lord was made to Ieremie in Taphnis, saying:Et factus est sermo Domini ad Jeremiam in Taphnis, dicens: 9Take great stones in thy hand, and thou shalt hide them in the vault that is under the brick wall at the gate of Pharao’s house in Taphnis: in the sight of the men of Juda.Prendi delle grosse pietre colla tua mano, e nascondile nella grotta, che è sotto la muraglia di mattoni alla porta della casa di Faraone, che è in Taphnis, in presenza de' Giudei,Take thee greate stones in thy hand, and thou shalt hide them in the caue, that is vnder the bricke wal in the gate of Pharaoes house in Taphnis: in the sight of the men of Iuda.Sume lapides grandes in manu tua, et abscondes eos in crypta quæ est sub muto latericio in porta domus Pharaonis in Taphnis, cernentibus viris Judæis:
10And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Behold I will send, and take Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon my servant: and I will set his throne over these stones which I have hid, and he shall set his throne over them.E dirai loro: Queste cose dice il Signor degli eserciti, il Dio d'Israele: Ecco, che io manderò a chiamare Nabuchodonosor re di Babilonia mio servo; e porrò il trono di lui sopra queste pietre, che io ho nascoste, e sopra queste alzerà il suo soglio,And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord of hostes the God Israel: Behold I wil send, and take to me Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon my seruant: and I wil set his throne ouer these stones, which I haue hid, and he shal set his throne vpon them.et dices ad eos: Hæc dicit Dominus exercituum, Deus Israël: Ecce ego mittam et assumam Nabuchodonosor regem Babylonis, servum meum: et ponam thronum ejus super lapides istos quos abscondi, et statuet solium suum super eos: 11And he shall come and strike the land of Egypt: such as are for death, to death: and such as are for captivity, to captivity: and such as are for the sword, to the sword.E verrà, e flagellerà la terra d'Egitto: quelli, che son per la morte, alla morte; quelli, che son per la schiavitù, alla schiavitù; quelli, che son per la spada, anderanno alla spada.And coming he shal strike the Land of Aegypt: those that into death, into death: and those that into captiuitie, into captiuitie: and those that into the sword, into the sword.veniensque percutiet terram Ægypti, quos in mortem, in mortem, et quos in captivitatem, in captivitatem, et quos in gladium, in gladium: 12And he shall kindle a fire in the temples of the gods of Egypt, and he shall burn them, and he shall carry them away captives: and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd putteth on his garment: and he shall go forth from thence in peace.E darà fuoco a' templi degli dei dell'Egitto, e gli abbrucerà, e menerà schiavi gli dei: ed ei si vestirà delle spoglie dell'Egitto, come un pastore si cuopre del suo mantello, e andrassene in pace.And he shal kindle a fire in the temples of the goddes of Aegypt, and shal burne the same, and he shal lead them captiue: and he shal be clothed with the Land of Aegypt, as a pastoris clothed with his cloke: & he shal goe out from thence in peace.et succendet ignem in delubris deorum Ægypti, et comburet ea, et captivos ducet illos, et amicietur terra Ægypti sicut amicitur pastor pallio suo, et egredietur inde in pace: 13And he shall break the statues of the house of the sun, that are in the land of Egypt; and the temples of the gods of Egypt he shall burn with fire.E spezzerà le statue della casa del sole, che son nell'Egitto, e incendierà i templi degli dei dell'Egitto.And he shal breake the statuees of the house of the Sunne, that are in the Land of Aegypt: and the temples of the goddes of Aegypt he shal burne with fire.et conteret statuas domus solis quæ sunt in terra Ægypti, et delubra deorum Ægypti comburet igni.
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Year of the World 3417.
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Calmet
Proud and headstrong. (Calmet)
Worthington
Sinful people easily become worse. They are guilty of calumny, and comply not with their promise, Jeremias 42:5. (Worthington)
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Baruch. He had been at Babylon, and was liberated with Jeremias, always speaking with moderation of the king of Babylon, and exhorting the people to submission. This was enough to make the populace suspect. They are incapable of reasoning.
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Calmet
And Baruch, by compulsion. (Worthington) (Calmet)
Haydock
Hence God did not cease to speak by their mouth. (Haydock)
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Calmet
Wall; kiln, or court. (Hebrew) Justice was administered at the gate, and the magnificent throne of Solomon was placed in the court or porch, 3 Kings 10:18. (Calmet)
Worthington
The prophet preaches by facts, laying great stones in the chief city, Jeremias 19:10. (Worthington)
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Servant. The greatest monarchs only execute God's decrees.
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Temples. Hebrew also, "the palaces of the princes," as temples occur below.
Captives. The idols share the fate of their votaries, Jeremias 48:7.
Bochart
Array; or Hebrew, "cover with soldiers the land." Septuagint, "he shall cleanse (Calmet) or destroy." (Bochart)
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Sun. Septuagint, "of Heliopolis," where the largest temple of the sun was seen. Egypt was famous for its obelisks, erected by Pheron, successor of Sesostris. Some have been removed to Rome.
Calmet
Fire. History does not specify the particulars: but we may judge how the conqueror would treat these temples, etc., from what Xerxes and Ochus did afterwards. (Calmet)
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Sinful people are easily changed to worse and worse from their good motions. For this insolent calumniation is farre from their promise, ch. 42. v. 5. & 6.
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The obstinate people forced also Ieremie and Baruch to goe vvith them. into Aegypt.
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Vvhere both by wordes and other signes he prophecieth that the king of Babylon wil build his palace in the chief citie of Aegypt, and in signe therof layeth great stones as the fundation of the same. As els where he prophecied by factes. ch. 19. v. 10 c. 27. v. 2. c. 32 v. 7.
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St Hippolytus † AD 235 On Daniel 6
… And she was the daughter of Chelcias the priest, who found the book of the law in the house of the Lord, when Josiah the king commanded him to purify the holy of holies. His brother was Jeremiah the prophet, who was carried, with the remnant that was left after the deportation of the people to Babylon, into Egypt, and dwelt in Taphnæ;
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St John Chrysostom † AD 407 The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Epistle to the Hebrews 26
… for he ruled over the whole [earth]; (and this is evident from Jeremiah. “Who putteth on the earth,” saith he, “as a garment.” (See
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3. But Baruch the son of Neriah incites thee,—because Baruch seemed to them bolder and more spirited than Jeremiah, who was mild and exhausted by so many imprisonments and hardships: for they knew that Baruch was Jeremiah's secretary, and that he had read Jeremiah's dictations before the people, and had copied Jeremiah's book; whence they thought he was his counselor, and that he spoke through Baruch, and that he would betray their counsels to the Chaldeans.
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7. Tahpanhes.—It was the metropolis of Egypt, and the royal residence of Pharaoh, where Moses wrought his prodigies, namely in the field of Taneos, that is Tanis or Tahpanhes, Psalm LXXVII, 43. See the sayings at Numbers XIII, 23. 9. Under the brick wall.—Note: Egypt, because it is muddy from the inundation and silting of the Nile, hence abounds in brick: therefore some wish the principal city of Egypt to be called Pelusium, as if πηλεύσειν, that is brick: although others think Pelusium is named from Peleus, the father of Achilles, because he founded this city. Symbolically therefore, this wall signifies Egypt: under it Jeremiah is here commanded to place great stones, so that when they are buried in the ground and compacted with lime and mortar, he may as it were lay the foundation of the royal throne, which Nebuchadnezzar is about to place there. By this symbol he signifies that Nebuchadnezzar will place his throne and scepter upon Egypt, and will subject it to himself, as if to say: O Jews, prudent and unbelieving and rebellious toward God, do you think to hide and be safe under the brick wall of Egypt against God's will? But you are deceived: for Nebuchadnezzar will come, who will take this wall, and will lay it beneath and subject it to himself and his throne, and will kill you first. Secondly, he alludes to the servitude of Egypt under Moses, as if to say: You flee into Egypt; but remember that you served there in a hard furnace and as it were an iron one, making bricks from mud, and know that in like manner you will be punished there by Nebuchadnezzar with either death or servitude. In the gate of the house of Pharaoh,—as if to say: The royal gate and house which is now Pharaoh's will be the royal residence of Nebuchadnezzar; and this on account of you, for he himself will pursue you into Egypt: therefore you will be the cause why the Egyptians likewise fall into his hands: for you carry with you wherever you go the punishment of your sins, calamity and captivity. 10. Behold I will send—messengers, who will summon Nebuchadnezzar: these messengers were thoughts and inspirations of persecuting the Jews and occupying Egypt, injected into the mind of Nebuchadnezzar, says Maldonatus.
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11. Those to death (namely I have destined, Nebuchadnezzar himself will deliver) to death. Those to captivity (namely I have destined, he himself will deliver) to captivity.—See the sayings at chapter XV, 2. 12. And he shall lead them captives,—he shall carry the golden and silver gods of the Egyptians into Babylon; or "them," namely the Egyptians: for these are implicitly contained in the word Egypt which preceded. He shall clothe himself with the land of Egypt.—The word land is not in the nominative case, as if to say: The land of Egypt shall clothe itself and be wrapped in its own fortifications, as Hugo wishes; or with the soldiers of Nebuchadnezzar, as Lyra wishes; but it is in the ablative case. The sense therefore is, as if to say: Nebuchadnezzar shall clothe himself with all the spoils and riches of Egypt, just as a shepherd when he leads sheep to pasture in rain and cold, clothes himself with his cloak, beyond which he has no other riches or garments, but carries with him his tent and household, which Virgil says of the Scythians, as if to say: In like manner Nebuchadnezzar will go forth from Egypt laden with spoils, and will carry away all the riches of Egypt. For a king covers and clothes himself with his kingdom or one subdued by him; and since the king is the same as a shepherd, he puts on himself the kingdom, as a shepherd a cloak. Thus the Hebrews. Whence also the Chaldean translator renders it: He shall clothe himself with the land of Egypt (namely the king of Babylon), as a shepherd clothes himself with his garment. Otherwise the Septuagint translates it, namely: He shall search through the land of Egypt, as a shepherd cleanses his garment of lice, thus namely carefully and diligently, so that he leaves nothing behind. For shepherds rarely remove their garments; hence they contract worms, which they search for in the fields: for they abound in leisure, says Theodoret.
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13. And he shall break in pieces the statues of the house of the Sun. — The Septuagint: statues of Heliopolis: for Heliopolis is thus called in Greek, as it were the City of the Sun: because in it the Sun was worshipped in its temple, whose priest was Putiphar, Genesis XLI, 45. Note: The Phoenicians and Egyptians, first of all peoples, venerated the sun, moon and stars as gods, as if they were the causes of the generation and destruction of all things. "For, as Catullus says, plants and all living things are 'soothed by breezes, the sun strengthens, rain nourishes.'" Moreover, the Egyptians depicted the Sun in youthful form, with a round face, standing in a ship, which a crocodile bore, as Pierius notes; Hieroglyph. XLIX. By the ship they signified the motion of the Sun in the waters, that is in the heavens made from water; by the crocodile, rain water, of which the sun is the cause. Now Heliopolis was properly devoted to the Sun alone, and because the sun is unique, hence the phoenix, which is said to have been first seen in that city and is reported to dwell there, they attributed to it as a unique hieroglyphic symbol for the unique Sun, just as the sun is a hieroglyphic symbol of the one God: and perhaps from this the phoenix was invented by them, a bird not real, but symbolic, so that by this hieroglyphic they might signify the celestial and swift motion of the unique Sun, as I have said Genesis VII, 2.
Machine translation from the Latin, not reviewed.
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Azarias (Hebrew: 'Azaryah[û] «Yahweh helps»)
… Mizpah to Gedaliah (Jer. 40:7-14). After the fall of Jerusalem (586 B.C.), he accused Jeremiah of deceiving the people by dissuading them from emigrating to Egypt; he was among those who dragged the prophet himself with his secretary Baruch into Egypt (Jer. 43:2-6). He is identified with "Jezaniah" of Jer. 42:1 (and, it seems, of 40:8).
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… "Benedetto"). - Son of Neriah, secretary of Jeremiah (v.), whose oracles he wrote down, and his faithful companion during the siege of Jerusalem (Jer. 32:12-16; 36:4-32; 43:3). For his fidelity to the great prophet, God assured him of special protection (Jer. 45:5). After the murder of Gedaliah (v.), he followed Jeremiah into Egypt (Jer. 43:6). It seems …
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… and his faithful companion during the siege of Jerusalem (Jer. 32:12-16; 36:4-32; 43:3). For his fidelity to the great prophet, God assured him of special protection (Jer. 45:5). After the murder of Gedaliah (v.), he followed Jeremiah into Egypt (Jer. 43:6). It seems that he ended his days among the exiles of Babylon, where he was on the fifth anniversary of the fall of Jerusalem (Bar. 1:1-2). On that date (581 B.C.), he composed his …
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Taphnis (Hebrew: Taphranas; in Ezek. 30:18, Tephranas)
TAPHNIS (Hebrew: Taphranas; in Ezek. 30:18, Tephranas). - An Egyptian city (Ez. 30:18) where, after the assassination of Gedaliah, many Jews sought asylum in order to escape the reprisals of the Babylonians (Jer. 43:7-9). A Jewish colony probably already existed there (ibid. 44:1; 46:14). The prophet Jeremiah, who together with his secretary Baruch had been forced to emigrate there, continued his …
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Taphnis (Hebrew: Taphranas; in Ezek. 30:18, Tephranas)
… escape the reprisals of the Babylonians (Jer. 43:7-9). A Jewish colony probably already existed there (ibid. 44:1; 46:14). The prophet Jeremiah, who together with his secretary Baruch had been forced to emigrate there, continued his mission there (ibid. 43:8) and, according to a late tradition, was killed there by the Jews themselves.
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Bethsames (Hebrew Bēth-Ēmef = "House of the Sun")
In Jer. 43:13 "B. which is in the land of Egypt" is evidently Heliopolis of Lower Egypt, whose name is literally translated into Hebrew.
… The m. was often an idolatrous stele, alongside the 'āferāh and the altar, in Canaanite sanctuaries or sacred high places (Ex. 32, 24; 34, 13; Deut. 7, 5; 12, 3; Jer. 43, 13; in Ez. 26, 11 "protecting columns," like those at the entrance of the temple of Melkart at Tyre).
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