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, c.), He would not be acting according to His own unchanging principle ( Jeremiah 18:9 Jeremiah 18:10 ). This is applied practically to the Jews' case ( Jeremiah 18:10- : ; see Jeremiah 26:3 ; Jonah 3:10 ). return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-11" class="com-number"
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