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Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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Jeremiah 18:8

their evil—in antithesis to, "the evil that I thought to do."

repent—God herein adapts Himself to human conceptions. The change is not in God, but in the circumstances which regulate God's dealings: just as we say the land recedes from us when we sail forth, whereas it is we who recede from the land (Ezekiel 18:21; Ezekiel 33:11). God's unchangeable principle is to do the best that can be done under all circumstances; if then He did not take into account the moral change in His people (their prayers, etc.), He would not be acting according to His own unchanging principle (Jeremiah 18:9-10). This is applied practically to the Jews' case (Jeremiah 18:11; see Jeremiah 26:3; Jonah 3:10).

Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Jeremiah 18:8:

Jeremiah 42:10
Daniel 4:27
Jonah 3:10

 

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