30. the hedge--the wall
(see on
Eze 13:5);
image for leading the people to repentance.
the gap--the breach
(Ps 106:23);
image for interceding between the people and God
(Ge 20:7;
Ex 32:11;
Nu 16:48).
I found none--
(Jer 5:1)
--not that literally there was not a righteous man in the city. For
Jeremiah, Baruch, &c., were still there; but Jeremiah had been
forbidden to pray for the people
(Jer 11:14),
as being doomed to wrath. None now, of the godly, knowing the desperate
state of the people, and God's purpose as to them, was willing
longer to interpose between God's wrath and them. And none "among
them," that is, among those just enumerated as guilty of such sins
(Eze 22:25-29),
was morally able for such an office.
JFB.
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