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Jeremiah

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The LORD showed me, and behold, two baskets of figs were set before the LORD’s temple, after Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the craftsmen and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon. See also: Jeremiah 29:2 2 Chronicles 36:10 2 Kings 24:12-16One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first-ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad. See also: Isaiah 5:7 Isaiah 5:4 Micah 7:1Then the LORD asked me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” I said, “Figs. The good figs are very good, and the bad are very bad, so bad that they can’t be eaten.” See also: Amos 8:2 Zechariah 5:5-11 Jeremiah 1:11-14The LORD’s word came to me, saying, “The LORD, the God of Israel says: ‘Like these good figs, so I will regard the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, as good. See also: Zechariah 13:9 Nahum 1:7 Psalms 94:12-14For I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them again to this land. I will build them, and not pull them down. I will plant them, and not pluck them up. See also: Jeremiah 42:10 Jeremiah 29:10 Jeremiah 33:7I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the LORD. They will be my people, and I will be their God; for they will return to me with their whole heart. See also: Hebrews 8:10 Jeremiah 30:22 Ezekiel 37:23“‘As the bad figs, which can’t be eaten, they are so bad,’ surely the LORD says, ‘So I will give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt. See also: Jeremiah 43:1 Jeremiah 37:17 Jeremiah 29:16-18I will even give them up to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I will drive them. See also: Deuteronomy 28:37 Jeremiah 29:18 Jeremiah 15:4I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence among them, until they are consumed from off the land that I gave to them and to their fathers.’” See also: Isaiah 51:19 Jeremiah 19:7 Ezekiel 5:12-17

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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)5 notes

Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.

These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity

Jeremiah 24:1

Ver. 1. Engravers. Heb. "those who enclose." 4 K. xxiv. 14. and 1 K. xiii. 19.

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Jeremiah 24:2

Ver. 2. Season. Appearing in autumn and ripe in spring. Mic. vii. 1. C.

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Jeremiah 24:5

Ver. 5. Regard. Lit. "know," with love. Ps. i. 6. H. --- Jechonias was treated with honour, (4 K.

xxv. 27.) as well as Daniel (ii. 48.) and Zorobabel, of the same family. C. xxix. 5.

The captives, under Sedecias, (v. 8.) were much more abused. C. xxix. 17. C. ---

This is the literal sense; the mystical shews that the good shall be rewarded.

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Jeremiah 24:6

Ver. 6. Up, till the Messias appear, and the true Israel of God, his disciples, to whom the promises chiefly pertain. They will continue for ever. If this answer does not give satisfaction, as it ought, we may say that the Jews did not comply with the condition, and were therefore abandoned to the Romans. C.

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Jeremiah 24:8

Ver. 8. Egypt, to which they fled contrary to the prophet's advice. 4 K. xxv. 26.

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License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses

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