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• Historical References, Commentary and Comparative Texts: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)
  • Rashi's Commentary, c. 1075. chabad.org.
  • 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."
  • 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."
  • 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."
  • 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."
• Contemporary Commentary, Studies and Exegesis:
  • Commentary, Jeremiah 31:7-14, Terence E. Fretheim, Preaching This Week, WorkingPreacher.org, 2010.
    • "It is notable that the language of creation is drawn so strongly into this response to the saving work of God. Salvation is not simply for people; salvation is also for the land and for all of its creatures (devastated earlier, see Jeremiah 9:10)."
  • Commentary, Jeremiah 31:7-14, J. Clinton McCann, Preaching This Week, WorkingPreacher.org, 2009.
    • "The fact that God stayed faithful to a people who had turned away from God means that the "new covenant" (31:31) is grounded in grace (cf. 31:34, also 31:3, 20)."
  • Comments (commentary) and Clippings (technical notes for in-depth study), Chris Haslam, Anglican Diocese of Montreal.
  • Jeremiah 31:7-14 (Christmas 2), The Old Testament Readings: Weekly Comments on the Revised Common Lectionary,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."
  • 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.
  • 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."
  • "Post-Christmas Blues," Jerome Burce, Sabbatheology, The Crossings Community, 2010.
  • "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."
  • "Course Correction," Barbara Sholis, The Christian Century, 2002.
    • "Yahweh ultimately calls the children of Israel out of exile and back into the fullness of love."
  • 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."
  • 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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  • Nielsen, Glenn, "Homiletical Helps on LW Series B - Epistles," Concordia Journal, 2007. (Section on this text begins on p. 421.)
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  • Patterson, Richard D., "Parental Love as a Metaphor for Divine-Human Love," Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, 2003.
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  • O'Connor, Kathleeen M., "Rekindling Life, Igniting Hope," Journal for Preachers, 2007.
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  • Pohl, Christine D., "Homeward Bound," The Christian Century, 2005.
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  • Rogers, John B., Jr., "Expository Article: Jeremiah 31:7-14," Interpretation, 1988.
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  • Sholis, Barbara, "Course Correction," The Christian Century, 2002.
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  • 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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  • Hymns with Scripture Allusions: Jeremiah 31:10, 12. The Cyber Hymnal.
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