Jeremiah 1 Footnotes
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1:5 This passage could be understood to mean that God interacted with Jeremiah before he was born (see note on Ps 139:16) as an affirmation of the personhood of the preborn. More likely, it means that God determined to make Jeremiah his spokesman before he ever existed, and brought about that design after he was born. These words can also be taken as Jeremiah’s expression of the fact that he could never get away from his calling as a prophet—it was “[in]born” in him—even though he sometimes wanted to (Jr 20:6-9,14-18).