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Jeremiah 20:7-13
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| Historical References, Commentary and
Comparative Texts:
 | "Persecution
and Martyrdom," Comparative World Scriptures from United
Communities of Spirit. |
| IV.33, Against
Marcion, Tertullian
(c. 210) |
| Chapter VIII,
On Modesty, Tertullian (c.
217) |
| III.I.12, First
Principles (De Principiis), Origen.
(c.225) |
| X.13, Commentary
on the Gospel of John, Philocalia [anthology of Origen prepared by St. Basil and St.
Gregory Nazianzen], Origen.
(c.230) |
| I.Preface.5,
Against Celsus, Origen.
(c.246) |
| X.18, Commentary
on the Gospel of Matthew, Origen. (c.247) |
| From the Geneva Notes.
 | "In this appears the impatiency which often overcomes the servants of God
when they do not see their labours profit, and also feel their own
weakness." |
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| From
Matthew Henry's
Commentary.
| "Whatever injuries are done to us, we must leave them to that God to whom
vengeance belongs, and who has said, I will repay." |
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| From Wesley's
Notes.
| "The prophet recovering himself out of his fit of passion, encourageth
himself in his God...so declaring his faith in the power of God, as one able to save him,
and in the promise and good will of God toward him." |
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| From the Commentary on the Whole Bible
(Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, 1871).
| "...deceived--Others translate as Margin, 'Thou hast enticed'
or 'persuaded me,' namely, to undertake the prophetic office, 'and I was
persuaded'." |
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| Contemporary Commentary, Studies and Exegesis:
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Jeremiah 20:7-13, Studies on Old Testament texts from Series A, Ralph W.
Klein, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. |
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"Through Evil
Times," Larry Broding's Word-Sunday.Com:
A Catholic Resource for This Sunday's Gospel.
| "Have you ever been the target of gossip, rumor, or
character assassination? How has God helped you these times?" |
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"Desperation,
Not Despair," Larry Broding's Word-Sunday.Com:
A Catholic Resource for This Sunday's Gospel.
| "Have you ever been mad at God? Has
serving the Lord caused you so much stress, you've doubted his wisdom?
What keeps you loyal to him?" |
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| Articles & Background:
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"Suffering Servants," Waldemar Janzen, (other resources
at)
"Suffering," Christian Reflection, The Center for Christian
Ethics at Baylor University, 2005.
| "In the prophets,
the suffering servant, and Jesus, the suffering of those called into
God's service is clothed with ever deepening significance." |
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"'You
tried to persuade me' and 'Violence! Outrage!' in Jeremiah 20.7-8,"
David J. A. Clines with David M. Gunn, On the Way to the Postmodern:
Old Testament Essays 1967-1998.
| "Finally, when it is realized
that vv. 7a, 8a and 9 are all making essentially the same point, the
thrust of Jeremiah's address to God is better understood. This
'confession' is not primarily a complaint that God has 'persuaded'
him, much less that he has 'deceived' him; that first word (pittā)
is not the keynote. The persuasion has only been God's means to the
end of achieving domination (tūkål) over the prophet, and it is
against that domination that Jeremiah is protesting." |
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| "Form,
Occasion and Redaction in Jeremiah 20," David J. A. Clines
with David M. Gunn, On the Way to the Postmodern: Old Testament
Essays 1967-1998.
| "Jeremiah 20.7-18, commonly
referred to as one of the 'confessions' of Jeremiah, is
misunderstood if it is read in its present context in the book of
Jeremiah simply as a transcript of the prophet's emotions." |
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"Notes on God's Violence," Catherine Madsen,
CrossCurrents, Summer 2001.
| "What if the alternation in God's
character between tender care and ferocious brutality, between limitless
creation and wholesale wreckage, occurs not because the writers of the
Hebrew Bible admired brutality or wreckage, but because they could not
escape them?" |
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| Articles in
ATLAS Journals. (Direct link when you are
subscribed and logged in to
ATLASerials online collection of Religion and Theology Journals.):
| Campbell, Charles L.,
"Speaking the Truth in Love,"
Journal for Preachers, 2005. |
| Holmgren, Fredrick C.,
"The Elusive Presence: Jeremiah 20:4-11," Currents in Theology and
Mission, 2006. |
| Honeycutt, Frank G.,
"The Prophet's Flame," Journal for Preachers, 2007. (Sermon) |
| Janzen, J. Gerald,
"Jeremiah 20:7-18," Interpretation, 1983. |
| Levenson, Jon D.,
"Some Unnoticed Connotations in Jeremiah 20:9," The Catholic Biblical
Quarterly, 1984. |
| Lewin, Ellen Davis,
"Arguing for Authority: A Rhetorical Study of Jeremiah 1:4-19 and 20:7-18,"
Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, 1985. |
| O'Connor, Kathleen M.,
"The Prophet Jeremiah and Exclusive Loyalty to God,"
Interpretation,
2005. |
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Clip Art, Jeremiah 20:9, Fr. Richard Lonsdale, Resources for Catholic Educators. |
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