John Calvin's Commentaries On Jeremiah 30- 47 by John Calvin

Author:John Calvin [Calvin, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Religion
ISBN: 9783849620615
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
Published: 2012-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

It is then said of King Jehoiakim, that while he was in his winter-house and sitting before the fire, fF106 when three or four pages had been read, he cut the roll with an iron pen, or with the small knife of a scribe. The word r[t tor, means often a razor, but is to be taken here for the knife used by scribes, un canivet. The king, in the first place, did not wait until Jehudi finished the roll; after he had heard three or four leaves, or pages, as we call them, he seized the roll and cut it; and in the second place, being not content with this sacrilege he burnt the roll, as though he could abolish God’s judgment together with the book. But we shall hereafter see what he gained by this intemperate spirit in burning the roll until the whole was consumed in the fire. It now follows —

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