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Jeremiah 48:1-47

The Pulpit Commentary on Jeremiah 48:1-47

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

EXPOSITION

This prophecy is so full of repetitions that the question has naturally arisen whether the most prominent of these may not be due to interpolation. For instance:

1. recur in ; , , ; , ; , ; not, indeed, without many peculiarities, and those peculiarities are so striking, and so little in harmony with Jeremiah's usual mode of using his predecessor's writings, that some have held that verses 29-38 were inserted by one of Jeremiah's readers.

2. Verses 43, 44 so closely resemble , , and cohere so loosely with the context, that interpolation is a not unreasonable hypothesis.

3. Verses 45, 46, which are omitted in the Septuagint, are evidently based on , .

4. Verses 40, 41 closely resemble ; the portion corresponding to that passage is omitted in the Septuagint.

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