Geremia 19:1

1 Così ha detto l’Eterno: Va’, compra una brocca di terra da un vasaio, e prendi teco alcuni degli anziani del popolo e degli anziani de’ sacerdoti;

Geremia 19:1 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 19:1

Thus saith the Lord, go and get a potter's earthen bottle
From the potter's house, where he had lately been; and where he had been shown, in an emblematic way, what God would do in a short time with the Jews; and which is here further illustrated by this emblem: or, "go and get", or "buy, a bottle of the potter, an earthen one" ^F11; so Kimchi; called in Hebrew "bakbuk", from the gurgling of the liquor poured into it, or out of it, or drank out of it, which makes a sound like this word ^F12: and [take] of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the
priests;
the word "take" is rightly supplied by our translators, as it is by the Targum, the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions; for these words are not to be connected with the former, as in the Vulgate Latin version; as if the prophet was to get or buy the earthen bottle of the elders of the people, and of the priests; but those who were the greatest and principal men of the city, and of which the Jewish sanhedrim consisted, were to be taken by the prophet to be witnesses of what were said and done, to see the bottle broke, and hear what Jeremiah from the Lord had to say; who, from their years, it might be reasonably thought, would seriously attend to those things, and would report them to the people to great advantage; and the Lord, who sent the prophet to them, no doubt inclined their hearts to go along with him; who, otherwise, in all probability, would have refused; and perhaps would have charged him with impertinence and boldness, and would have rejected his motion with contempt, as foolish or mad.

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FOOTNOTES:

F11 (vrx ruwy qbqb tynqw) "emas, [vel] emito oenophorum a figulo testaceum", Munster, Tigurine version. So Kimchi and Ben Melech.
F12 Vid. Stockium, p. 150.

Geremia 19:1 In-Context

1 Così ha detto l’Eterno: Va’, compra una brocca di terra da un vasaio, e prendi teco alcuni degli anziani del popolo e degli anziani de’ sacerdoti;

2 récati nella valle del figliuolo d’Hinnom ch’è all’ingresso della porta dei Vasai, e quivi proclama le parole che io ti dirò.

3 Dirai così: Ascoltate la parola dell’Eterno, o re di Giuda, e abitanti di Gerusalemme! Così parla l’Eterno degli eserciti, l’Iddio d’Israele: Ecco io fo venire sopra questo luogo una calamità, che farà intronar gli orecchi di chi n’udrà parlare;

4 poiché m’hanno abbandonato, hanno profanato questo luogo, e vi hanno offerto profumi ad altri dèi, che né essi, né i loro padri, né i re di Giuda hanno conosciuti, e hanno riempito questo luogo di sangue d’innocenti;

5 hanno edificato degli alti luoghi a Baal, per bruciare nel fuoco i loro figliuoli in olocausto a Baal; cosa che io non avevo comandata, della quale non avevo parlato mai, e che non m’era mai venuta in cuore.