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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on Jeremiah 23:29

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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · 19th-century historical commentary
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As the "fire" consumes the "chaff" (Jer 23:28), so "My word" will consume the false prophets (Mat 3:12; Heb 4:12). "My word" which is "wheat" (Jer 23:28), that is, food to the true prophet and his hearers, is a consuming "fire," and a crushing "hammer" (Mat 21:44) to false prophets and their followers (Co2 2:16). The Word of the false prophets may be known by its promising men peace in sin. "My word," on the contrary, burns and breaks the hard-hearted (Jer 20:9). The "hammer" symbolizes destructive power (Jer 50:23; Nah 2:1, Margin).
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