Jeremías 32:43

43 "Y se comprarán campos en esta tierra de la cual decís vosotros: 'Es una desolación, sin hombres ni animales; entregada está en mano de los caldeos.'

Jeremías 32:43 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 32:43

And fields shall be bought in this land
After the return from the Babylonish captivity, which this respects; and of which the prophet's purchasing a field of his uncle's son was a pledge and token; in doing which, as a right thing, he is confirmed; as well as the cavils and objections of the Jews removed, who thought the destruction of the city, and such a practice, irreconcilable; and, moreover, this is mentioned as a pledge, earnest, and confirmation of the fulfilment of the above spiritual promises in Gospel times; for the people being returned at the end of the seventy years' captivity, and purchasing fields and vineyards, as was predicted, it might be strongly concluded, that since those temporal blessings promised were made good, spiritual ones would certainly be fulfilled; though some understand these words, in a spiritual sense, of the field of the church; for it is in the singular number, "a field shall be bought" ^F15; yea, "that field", emphatically, which was bought by the blood of Christ, and first planted in the land of Judea, as in ( Jeremiah 32:41 ) ; whereof ye say, [it is] desolate without man or beast;
so wasted and destroyed by the enemy, that neither man nor beast are left, but both carried off by him; and therefore no hope of what is above promised: it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans;
they are become the possessors of it, and therefore it is all over with us as to buying and possessing fields and vineyards; but notwithstanding this diffidence and despair in the present view of things, it follows:

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FOOTNOTES:

F15 (hdvh hnqnw) "et [vel] tum emetur ager", Cocceius, Schmidt; "tum comparabitur ager", Junius & Tremellius.

Jeremías 32:43 In-Context

41 Me regocijaré en ellos haciéndoles bien, y ciertamente los plantaré en esta tierra, con todo mi corazón y con toda mi alma.

42 Porque así dice el SEÑOR: "Como he traído a este pueblo toda esta gran calamidad así he de traer sobre ellos todo el bien que les prometo.

43 "Y se comprarán campos en esta tierra de la cual decís vosotros: 'Es una desolación, sin hombres ni animales; entregada está en mano de los caldeos.'

44 "La gente comprará campos por dinero, firmarán y sellarán escrituras y llamarán a testigos, en la tierra de Benjamín, en los alrededores de Jerusalén, en las ciudades de Judá, en las ciudades de la región montañosa, en las ciudades de la llanura y en las ciudades del Neguev, porque restauraré su bienestar"declara el SEÑOR.