Jeremia 32:43

43 Und es sollen Felder gekauft werden in diesem Lande, von welchem ihr saget: Es ist öde, ohne Menschen und ohne Vieh, es ist in die Hand der Chaldäer gegeben.

Jeremia 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.

Jeremia 32:43 In-Context

41 Und ich werde mich über sie freuen, ihnen wohlzutun, und werde sie in diesem Lande pflanzen in Wahrheit mit meinem ganzen Herzen und mit meiner ganzen Seele.

42 Denn so spricht Jehova: Gleichwie ich über dieses Volk all dieses große Unglück gebracht habe, also will ich über sie all das Gute bringen, das ich über sie rede.

43 Und es sollen Felder gekauft werden in diesem Lande, von welchem ihr saget: Es ist öde, ohne Menschen und ohne Vieh, es ist in die Hand der Chaldäer gegeben.

44 Man wird Felder um Geld kaufen und Kaufbriefe schreiben und sie versiegeln und Zeugen nehmen im Lande Benjamin und in den Umgebungen von Jerusalem und in den Städten Judas, sowohl in den Städten des Gebirges als auch in den Städten der Niederung und in den Städten des Südens. Denn ich werde ihre Gefangenschaft wenden, spricht Jehova.