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  • From: "Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard AT ont.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Syntax of Jeremiah 15:12
  • Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 11:58:36 -0600

Dear Darrell and Christopher,

The NIV version also makes it more clearer when taken allegorically: can man prevail against God's mandates (northern or 'heavenly' iron) and His judgement (the bronze)?

HH: What textual warrant is there for identifying God's mandates with northern iron and His judgments with bronze?

HH: Keil said the following: "The attribute "from the north" points manifestly to the iron sway of the Chaldean empire (Ros., Ew., Maur., and many others); and the meaning of the verse can only be this: As little as a man can break iron, will the Jewish people be able to break the hostile power of the north (13:20). Taken thus, the pictorial style of the verse contains a suggestion that the adversaries of the prophet will, by the crushing power of the Chaldeans, be reduced to the condition of turning themselves in supplication to the prophet."

Yours,
Harold Holmyard





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