Commentary on the prophet Jeremiah
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“Interpretation of the Prophet Jeremiah” was written by the blessed one. Theodoret of Cyrus in 449. He sequentially sets out all 52 chapters of this prophetic book and tries to briefly convey clear passages. Places that require more careful analysis are discussed in more detail.
The commentaries raise the central themes of the Book of the Prophet Jeremiah - a call to repentance, a warning about impending disasters and the destruction of Jerusalem, as well as hope for restoration and salvation. Blzh. Theodoret emphasizes that the prophet Jeremiah, as God's messenger, faces severe opposition from the people and authorities, which makes his ministry especially painful and difficult.
Prophecies about the coming Messiah of the blessed. Theodoret connects with the Christian understanding of salvation through Christ. The words of the prophet Jeremiah about internal renewal and a new heart find their fulfillment in the New Testament.
*The title of the work in Latin is lnterpretatio in Jeremiam.
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I thought that the prophecy of the divine Jeremiah did not need interpretation. But since many zealots demanded that I interpret this book, saying that many do not know the meaning of this prophecy, then, having asked for the assistance of divine grace, I will try to fulfill the order. However, as much as possible, I will take utmost care of brevity, and I will convey clear passages in brief words, and I will try to understand what requires careful work. First of all, I will outline the contents of the prophecy.
King Josiah had the wicked Amos as his father, and Manasseh as his grandfather, who taught his father wickedness. He himself, walking a path opposite to theirs, belonged to the ranks of the pious; but his children did not compete with their father’s virtues, but imitated the wickedness of their ancestors. Therefore, foreseeing this, the God of all, in the thirteenth year of the reign of Josiah, chooses a Prophet and commands him to foretell future disasters to the city and people. The Prophet continued these predictions not only during the rest of Josiah’s reign, but also under Johaz, who, being the son of Josiah, succeeded him to the kingdom, and under Jehoiakim, the brother of Joahaz, and the son of Josiah, and under Jeconiah, the son of Joiakim, and grandson Josiah, and also under Zedekiah, who had Josiah as his father; so that the entire time of the prophecy was forty-two years without a few months.
The Prophet foreshadows the siege of the city by the Babylonians, and the threatening famine, and the destruction of Jerusalem, and the burning of the divine church, and the enslavement of the people, and also foreshadows the return of the captives, and the death of the Babylonians, and various punishments to many other nations; also predicts the giving of the new covenant and the end of the old, the calling of nations and the future salvation of the universe.
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