A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Jeremiah
Overview
Lange’s Commentary on the Holy Scriptures has served as a standard reference for more than a century. The subtitle “Critical, Doctrinal, and Homiletical” aptly describes the three-pronged approach to the biblical text. This translated version of the German text is often considered by many to be superior to the original.
Top Highlights
“As not a tittle of the law is absolutely abrogated, and thrown aside as worthless, but is kept by being fulfilled and thus being elevated to a higher potency, so also the Levitical priesthood being absorbed by a higher, is lost in its outward, temporal and local form, but in its ideal character is now first established.” (Page 294)
“Jeremiah was the most prominent personage in a period of deepest distress and humiliation of the Jewish theocracy. He witnessed one by one the departure of all prospects of a reformation and deliverance from impending national ruin. Profoundly sympathizing with the calamities of his people and country, he is emphatically the prophet of sorrow and affliction. The first quotation from him in the New Testament is ‘a voice of lamentation and weeping and great mourning’ (Matt. 2:17, 18). In his holy grief over Jerusalem and his bitter persecutions he resembles the life of Christ.” (Page i)
“The direction in vers. 5–7 is given by the prophet for two reasons, a negative and a positive. The negative reason is, the expectation of a speedy liberation, which false prophets seek to produce in the people and which is an illusion of their own dreams, a nonentity, by which they are not to allow themselves to be deceived (vers. 8 and 9). The positive reason is that not till after seventy years will the Lord verify His promise of grace. Then will the people call upon their God and seek Him, and He will hear and be found of them and turn away their captivity and bring them home from all the places where they have been dispersed (vers. 10–14).—Ver. 10. Seventy years.” (Page 248)
- Title: A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Jeremiah
- Authors: Johann Peter Lange, Philip Schaff, Carl Wilhelm Eduard Nägelsbach, Samuel Ralph Asbury
- Series: Lange’s Commentary
- Publisher: Faithlife
- Print Publication Date: 2008
- Logos Release Date: 2008
- Era: era:modern
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Bible. O.T. Jeremiah › Commentaries
- Resource ID: LLS:LANGE24JE
- Resource Type: Bible Commentary
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-05T17:03:12Z