{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/wesley/jer008.htm","path":"bib/cmt/wesley/jer008.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/wesley/jer008.htm","text":"Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley, [1754-65]\n \nJeremiah 8:1\n \njer 8:1\nThe bones - This denotes the utter desolation of the city, not only rasing the walls, but turning up the very sepulchres which were accounted sacred, and not to be violated. \nJeremiah 8:4\n \njer 8:4\nNot arise - Will they never think of rising again? Not return - Will he wander for ever? \nJeremiah 8:5\n \njer 8:5\nDeceit - Their false prophets, encouraging themselves in their wickedness, and pleasing themselves, that their miseries should not come upon them. \nJeremiah 8:6\n \njer 8:6\nI - God. \nJeremiah 8:7\n \njer 8:7\nAppointed time - The seasons of her going and coming. The judgment - God's vengeance, hovering over Jerusalem, and Judea. \nJeremiah 8:8\n \njer 8:8\nHow - These things considered where is your wisdom? He speaks to the whole body of the people. The Lord - This may have a more special eye to the priests. In vain - For any use they made of it; neither need it ever have been copied out by the scribe. A scribe was a teacher, one well versed in the scripture, or esteemed to be so. \nJeremiah 8:13\n \njer 8:13\nPass away - Shall be taken away by their enemies. \nJeremiah 8:14\n \njer 8:14\nWhy - The people at length seem to bethink themselves, and thus to bespeak each other. Silent - Keep close within our walls. \nJeremiah 8:16\n \njer 8:16\nThe snorting - The fury of the Chaldeans march is described by the snorting of their horses, which is a noise they make through their nostrils. Heard - Even to Jerusalem. Have devoured - It is spoken in a prophetical style, who use to express the certainty of what shall be, as if it actually were already. \nJeremiah 8:17\n \njer 8:17\nShall bite - There will be no appeasing their fury by any method. \nJeremiah 8:18\n \njer 8:18\nSorrow - The prophet now seems to speak, how greatly the calamity of this people affected him. \nJeremiah 8:19\n \njer 8:19\nWhy - As if God should seem to reply; let them not think it strange, seeing they have turned their backs upon me, and trusted to idols. \nJeremiah 8:21\n \njer 8:21\nAm I hurt - The prophet here shews how deeply he is affected with the peoples misery. Black - I am as those that are clad in deep mourning.","title":"Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible: Jeremiah: Jeremiah Chapter 8","type":"page"}