Jeremías 6:28

28 Todos ellos son muy rebeldes,y andan sembrando calumnias;sean de bronce o de hierro,todos son unos corruptos.

Jeremías 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.

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FOOTNOTES:

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

Jeremías 6:28 In-Context

26 Vístete de luto, pueblo mío;revuélcate en las cenizas.Llora amargamente,como lo harías por tu primogénito,porque nos cae por sorpresael que viene a destruirnos.

27 «Te he puesto entre mi pueblocomo vigía y atalaya,para que escudriñesy examines su conducta.

28 Todos ellos son muy rebeldes,y andan sembrando calumnias;sean de bronce o de hierro,todos son unos corruptos.

29 Los fuelles soplan con furor,y el plomo se derrite en el fuego,pero los malvados no se purifican;¡de nada sirve que se les refine!

30 Por eso se les llama “Escoria de la plata”:¡para el SEÑOR son un desecho!»