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Jeremiah 15:15-21
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Chapter X,
The Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians, Ignatius of Antioch (c. 50 -
115). (Longer version only - 4th cent interpolation.) |
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Rashi's Commentary, c. 1075. chabad.org. |
| From the Geneva Notes.
 | "He does not speak this out of a desire for revenge, but wishing that God
would deliver his Church from them who he knew to be hardened and
incorrigible." |
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| From
Matthew Henry's
Commentary.
| "Some good people lose much of the pleasantness of religion by the
fretfulness and uneasiness of their natural temper, which they indulge." |
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| From
Wesley's
Notes.
| "God had all along filled his mouth with such dreadful messages, that his
whole prophetical life had been to him a time of mourning and solitude, a time when he sat
alone, mourning and weeping in secret for the wrath of God revealed to him against his
people." |
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| Your
Word, My Joy, from The Poor Man's Portions, Robert Hawker, c. 1800.
| "Yes, Lord, I have indeed found your words most precious, and, through your
grace, I have eaten them, and they are as honey and the honey-comb to my
soul." |
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| From the
Commentary on the Whole Bible
(Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, 1871).
| "The prophet in this had regard to, not his own personal feelings of
revenge, but the cause of God; he speaks by inspiration God's will against the ungodly.
Contrast in this the law with the gospel." |
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| Contemporary Commentary, Studies and Exegesis:
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Commentary,
Jeremiah 15:15-21, Richard W. Nysse, Preaching This Week,
WorkingPreacher.org, 2008.
| "One difficulty that preachers
will face with this text is sorting out the individual and communal
import of Jeremiah." |
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Jeremiah 15:15-21, Studies on Old Testament texts from
Series A, Ralph W. Klein, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. |
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Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Comfort and Challenge: Prophetic
Preaching in Pentecost, Daniel J. Simundson,
Word & World Texts in Context, Luther Seminary,
1996.
| "To lament is legitimate." |
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| Articles & Background:
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| Articles in
ATLAS Journals. (Direct link when you are
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ATLASerials online collection of Religion and Theology Journals.):
| Avioz, Michael,
"The Call for Revenge in Jeremiah's Complaints," Vetus Testamentum,
2005.
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| Bracke, John M., "Jeremiah 15:15-21,
Expository Article," Interpretation, 1983.
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| Bright, John, "A Prophet's Lament and
Its Answer: Jeremiah 15:10-21," Interpretation, 1974
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| Ewert, David, "The Confessions of a
Prophet," Direction, 1975.
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| Floyd, Michael H., "Prophetic
Complaints about the Fulfillment of Oracles in Habakkuk 1:2-17 and
Jeremiah 15:10-18," Journal of Biblical Literature, 1991.
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| O'Connor, Kathleen M., "Lamenting
Back to Life," Interpretation, 2008.
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| O'Connor, Kathleen M.,
"The Prophet Jeremiah and Exclusive Loyalty to God,"
Interpretation,
2005.
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| Simundson, Daniel
J., "Comfort and Challenge: Prophetic Preaching in Pentecost," Word &
World, 1996. (Section on this text begins on page 373.)
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| van Wolde, Ellen, "Sentiments as Culturally
Constructed Emotions: Anger and Love in the Hebrew Bible," Biblical
Interepretation, 2008.
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