then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave of old to your fathers forever.
Then follows the latter part, Then I will make you to dwell, Calvin departs here from his former rendering in verse 3d. The words mean the same, “Then will I dwell with you.” So the Vulgate. — Ed. etc. God sets this clause in opposition to the false confidence of the people, as though he had said, “Ye wish me to be propitious to you...
These verses begin another sermon, which is continued in this and the two following chapters, much to the same effect with those before, to reason them to repentance. Observe, I. The orders given to the prophet to preach this sermon; for he had not only a general commission, but particular directions and instructions for every message he delivered.
Commenting on Jeremiah 7:1-15
Then will I cause you to dwell in this place,.... In the land of Judea, and not suffer them to be carried captive, which they had been threatened with, and had reason to expect, should they continue in their sins, in their impenitence and vain confidence: in the land that I gave to your fathers; to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, by promise; and to the...