Commentaries:
No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for Jeremiah 18:5.
Jeremiah 18:1-6
Excerpted from: What Kind of Life Do You Want?This passage has more drama than the one in Isaiah 64. Here, God intimates that even though the original vessel was marred and unusable according to the original intent, He could still shape it into something that would be useful to Him, even though it might not be as beautiful as the original. It is a story of redemption after something goes wrong. But the potter determines the form and substance of the vessel after the redemption, not the clay. This idea carries into the New Testament in Roman 9:19-24, where Paul teaches that God can make whatever sort of vessel He chooses, and the thing formed has no basis for calling God into account.
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