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Jer. 51:7. Golden cup Babylon. If the golden cup is in the hand of the Lord, then why is it punished? Because he punished and took revenge more (than he should have); and he was strong through Me. Jer. 51:25. And I will give you to the burnt mountain. That is, into ashes, saying through this: you, who were strong, I will turn into nothing. Borrowed this metaphor from stones being burned for lime. Jer. 51:27. Proclaim nan to the kingdoms of Ararat from me. They say that these are the Cardauins, and the Achanazeans (by which) mean the inhabitants of Pontus. Jer. 51:31. Drive into the meeting of the current one will comprehend. That is, the one running will meet the enemy and he will chase to take him. Jer. 51:37. And Babylon will be desolate, a habitation of the serpent and hills (εἰς θήνας 252). According to the Greek translation, it means that they will turn into a thorny desert, since the word (placed in it) (θήνας - finas) means: bushes (θάμνους). And the (corresponding) Hebrew word means: emptiness (χοιλότητως;), since phoon (θωόν) is emptiness, which in Greek is conveyed through θήνας - finas. Jer. 51:38. Together like lions will rise (ἐρεύξονται) skimns (οι ωεαν ί οκοι) them. Some attribute this to the Babylonians being struck, roaring from the blow as audibly as a roaring lion. But it is better to attribute this to the Medes, since they are terrible (and) divine Scripture usually uses the example of a lion. Jer. 51:41. How did Sisoch take up (Σισόχ). They say that Sisoch is the name of the king and means the Ethiopians; it is explained from Hus, from whom the Ethiopians descended. They are said to be mentioned by the prophet as having helped the Babylonian king in the war with the Medes and being defeated. Jer. 51:44. And I will visit Bel in Babylon, and I will spew out what he has swallowed up out of his mouth, and the nations will no longer be gathered to him. According to the order (of speech), this must be attributed to the Babylonians, because along with the idols I will destroy their power; but literally (said) as about idols. And some understood the words this way: I will devour the hedgehog, that I will destroy the prophecy of Vila, so that he will be despised by everyone. Jer. 51:46. Parable upon parable (παραβολὴ ἐπὶ παραβολὴν 253). That is, story after story, in the sense that Babylon will have constant misfortunes. Jer. 51:59–64. The word that the Lord spoke to the prophet Jeremiah as a commandment. To Sarei the son of Neri, when he went from Zedekiah king of Judah to Babylon, in the fourth year of his kingdom. Sarei is the head of gifts. That is, Sarei was the first of those bearing gifts, and speaks of the gifts sent by Zedekiah to Nebuchadnezzar, and orders him to take the book and put a stone on it and throw it into the middle of the Euphrates, as a sign of the death of Babylon. So that they would not think that he was speaking out of love all about the barbarian, he pronounced a prophecy about Babylon, when Nebuchadnezzar was still flourishing, through all this (this) assuring Israel that he was not pronouncing a prophecy about the city out of flattery before his enemies, but for the admonition of those (in it). This end of the book of the prophet was signified by those who connected his words, and what follows was transferred from the books of Kings and has no connection with the prophecy of Jeremiah. The corresponding Slavic translation: in a miracle and a building serves as a transfer of the Latin translation: stupor et sibilus Instead, in other Greek sp., which is followed here by Slav. B., reads: ἐξουσιαστὴν ἐπ ’ ἐξουσιαστὴν - ruler against ruler.