“Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will let you hear my words.”
The prophet is here sent to the potter's house (he knew where to find it), not to preach a sermon as before to the gates of Jerusalem, but to prepare a sermon, or rather to receive it ready prepared. Those needed not to study their sermons that had them, as he had this, by immediate inspiration.
Commenting on Jeremiah 18:1-10
Then I went down to the potter's house,.... He did as the Lord commanded him; he was obedient to the divine will; he went to hear what the Lord had to say to him there, and to observe such things, from whence he might learn instruction for himself and others: and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels; the Targum renders it "upon a...
Jer 18:2-5 The emblem and its interpretation. - Jer 18:2 . "Arise and go down into the potter’s house; there will I cause thee to hear my words. Jer 18:3 . And I went down into the potter’s house; and, behold, he wrought on the wheels. Jer 18:4 .
Commenting on Jeremiah 18:2-5