12. A new image. Do we not . . . know . . . wine —The "bottles" are those used in the East, made of skins; our word "hogshead," originally "oxhide," alludes to the same custom. As they were used to hold water, milk, and other liquids, what the prophet said (namely, that they should be all filled with wine) was not, as the Jews' taunting reply implied, a truism even literally. The figurative sense which is what Jeremiah chiefly meant, they affected not to understand. As wine intoxicates, so God's wrath and judgments shall reduce them to that state of helpless distraction that they shall rush on to their own ruin ( Jeremiah 25:15 ; Jeremiah 49:12 ; Isaiah 51:17 ; Isaiah 51:21 ; Isaiah 51:22 ; Isaiah 63:6 ). return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-13" class="com-number"
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