Jeremias 6:28

28 Todos eles são os mais rebeldes, e andam espalhando calúnias; são bronze e ferro; todos eles andam corruptamente.

Jeremias 6:28 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 6:28

They are all grievous revolters
From the right way of God and his worship: or, they are all revolters of revolters
F5; of all, the greatest revolters, the greatest sinners and transgressors, the most stubborn and disobedient; or sons of revolters; fathers and children are alike. The Targum, is,

``all their princes rebel;''
and so the Vulgate Latin and Syriac versions: "walking with slanders": of one another; or with deceit, as the Targum; in a hypocritical and fraudulent manner; playing the hypocrite with God, or tricking and deceiving their neighbours. They are "brass and iron"; as vile and mean as those metals, and not as gold and silver; or as hard and inflexible as they are; or they deal as insincerely
``as he that mixes brass with iron;''
so the Targum: they are all corrupters;
as such that mix metals are; they are corrupters of themselves and of others, of the doctrines and manners of men, and of the ways and worship of God.
FOOTNOTES:

F5 (Myrrwo yro) "refractarii refractariorum", Schmidt; "contumacium contumacissimi", Junius & Tremellius.

Jeremias 6:28 In-Context

26 ç filha do meu povo, cingi-te de saco, e revolve-te na cinza; pranteia como por um filho único, em pranto de grande amargura; porque de repente virá o destruidor sobre nós.
27 Por acrisolador e examinador te pus entre o meu povo, para que proves e examines o seu caminho.
28 Todos eles são os mais rebeldes, e andam espalhando calúnias; são bronze e ferro; todos eles andam corruptamente.
29 Já o fole se queimou; o chumbo se consumiu com o fogo; debalde continuam a fundição, pois os maus não são arrancados.
30 Prata rejeitada lhes chamam, porque o Senhor os rejeitou.
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