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Jeremiah 31:7-14
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| Historical References, Commentary and
Comparative Texts:
 | III.VIII.2, V.XXXIV.3, Adversus
Haereses, Irenaeus of Lyons.
(c. 180) |
| Chapter
XIX, On Baptism, Tertullian
(c. 198) |
| From the Geneva Notes.
 | "By these temporal
benefits he means the spiritual graces which are in the Church, and of
which there would ever be plenty, Isa
58:11,12." |
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| From
Matthew Henry's
Commentary.
| "It is comfortable to
observe the goodness of the Lord in the gifts of providence. But our
souls are never valuable as gardens, unless watered with the dews of
God's Spirit and grace." |
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| From Wesley's
Notes.
| "A watered garden
- They shall be a beautiful, flourishing, and growing people. Soul seems
here to be taken for the whole man." |
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| From the Commentary on the Whole Bible
(Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, 1871).
| "Prayer does not move
God to grant our wishes, but when God has determined to grant our
wishes, He puts it into our hearts to pray for the thing desired." |
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| Contemporary Commentary, Studies and Exegesis:
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Comments
(commentary) and
Clippings
(technical notes for in-depth study), Chris Haslam, Anglican
Diocese of Montreal. |
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Jeremiah 31:7-14 (Christmas 2), The Old Testament Readings: Weekly Comments on the
Revised Common Lectionary, Howard Wallace Audrey Schindler, Morag Logan,
Paul Tonson, Lorraine Parkinson, Theological Hall of the Uniting Church,
Melbourne, Australia.
| "In a world overwhelmed by the prosaic
accounts of war and death that come with nauseating regularity over our
TVs or radios, maybe we need to hear again the poetry in the incarnation." |
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Jeremiah 31:7-14 (Christmas 2),
Jeremiah 31:7-9 (Pentecost 20), Studies on Old Testament texts from Series B, Ralph W.
Klein, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. |
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Jeremiah 31:7-14
(Christmas 2),
Commentary, Background, Insights from Literary Structure, Theological
Message, Ways to Present the Text. Anna Grant-Henderson, Uniting Church in
Australia.
| "As God cared for, guided, and restored
Israel so God continues to care for us, guide us and offer salvation not
because we have earned it, but because of God's continuing gracious love." |
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Jeremiah 31:7-14, The Old Testament Readings: Weekly Comments on the
Revised Common Lectionary, Howard Wallace Audrey Schindler, Morag Logan,
Paul Tonson, Lorraine Parkinson, Theological Hall of the Uniting Church,
Melbourne, Australia.
| "This is a people profoundly changed by
their experiences of loss and of exile. It is a lost and vulnerable
people being gathered by their God, and finding their delight in that." |
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"Homeward Bound," Christine D. Pohl, The Christian Century,
2005.
| "Because our basic theological
understandings of grace include assent to the claim that the most
beautiful and precious things in and about our lives are unearned and
undeserved, themes of gift and gratitude sometimes seem overworked.
Nevertheless, encounters with an abundance of grace and goodness can
still surprise us and remind us of how little we can do except respond
with thanksgiving and gratitude." |
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Lectionary
Commentary, Jeremiah 31:7-14, Second Sunday after Christmas,
by Dennis Bratcher at Christian
Resource Institute.
| "This is the season of
celebration in the Christian year in which we rejoice at the love and
grace represented by the Incarnation. But it is also a time to begin
reflecting on the nature of the community that is called into being by
such an act of God in the world." |
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| Environmental &
earth-centered reflections, Rev John Gibbs, from the Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota Environmental
Stewardship Commission.
| "Here is a People at
home in the world. They experience brooks and paths as gifts from God.
For them it is a homecoming to God to receive bountiful produce of the
land." |
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| "Christmas
C1 - Exegetical Notes on Jeremiah 31:10-13," Douglas MacCallum
Lindsay Judisch, Concordia Theological Seminary (LCMS - Indiana).
| "The first half of
Oracle 5, consisting in verses 7-9, expounds more the nature of the
return and inheritance promised in the thesis, while the second half
(verses 10-14), with which we are concerned here and now, elaborates
more the release from prison which is there intended." |
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| Articles & Background: |
| Articles in
ATLAS Journals. (Direct link when you are
subscribed and logged in to
ATLASerials online collection of Religion and Theology Journals.):
| Patterson, Richard D.,
"Parental Love as a Metaphor for Divine-Human Love," Journal of the
Evangelical Theological Society, 2003. |
| Pohl, Christine D.,
"Homeward Bound," The Christian Century, 2005. |
| Rogers, John B., Jr.,
"Expository Article: Jeremiah 31:7-14," Interpretation, 1988. |
| Yates, Gary E., "Narrative Parallelism and the 'Jehoiakim
Frame': A Reading Strategy for Jeremiah 26-45," Journal of the
Evangelical Theological Society, 2005.
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| Sermons: |
| Reviews:
| Becking, Bob, Between Fear and
Freedom: Essays on the Interpretation of Jeremiah 30-31. Brill, 2004.
Review
by Donald C. Raney, II, Review of Biblical Literature, 2007. |
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Clip Art, Jeremiah 31:8, Fr. Richard Lonsdale, Resources for Catholic Educators. |
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