...predict the destruction of the city. So also in Jeremiah ; ' And the Lord said unto me, behold I Rave put my words in thy mouth. See, I have this day set...destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant ; ' that is, to foretell these events. Again, in Isaiah ; ' Go make the heart of this people fat, and...

...themselves their own sanction : and the same figure is used Jer. i. 10: "See, I have set thee this day over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out,...destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant;" and, v. 14, " Behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour...

...intended, when it was said to the Prophet Jeremiah, "Behold, I have this day set thee over the nations and the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to...destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant." It was an incomprehensible and infinite power, because " great is the Lord, and great is his power,...

...Lord." We are told, that God then put forth his hand and touched the prophet's lips, adding, " Behold, I put my words in thy mouth. See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdom!;, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build and to plant."...

...same doctrine. Innocent III. applied to the Pope the tenth verse of the first chapter of Jeremiah. "See, I have this day, set thee over the nations and...destroy, and to throw down, to build and to plant." This Pope also practised this doctrine by deposing the emperor Otho IV. In the year 1099, Pope Paschall...

...vision lhat I saw when I came to destroy the city ;' ie to foretell its destruction. Jer. 1. 10, ' I have this day set thee over the nations and over...destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant ;' ie to predict that all these things shall be done. Jer. 15. 1, ' Cast them (this people) out of...

...city, and by the word of his mouth did certainly destroy it (Ezek. xliii. 3), as He set Jeremiah " over the nations, and over the kingdoms, to root out,...and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down" (Jer. i. 10). As also he gave these two witnesses of the Apocalypse, " power to shut heaven, to turn...

...listen * with docility to his instructions, he proceeded in the following terms : — ' God has set me over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out and to pull down, and to destroy and _to throw down, to build and to plant t> in his name, and by his doctrine. Let no one persuade you,...

...himself. * These notions of Gregory seem to have been founded on that passage in Jeremiah which says, —" See, I have this day set thee over the nations and...destroy, and to throw 'down, to build, and to plant." — Ch. i. 10. f The authenticity of these famous Dictates is so ably assailed and defended by Baronius...

...bring in and hasten it; and therefore spoke of, as effecting the things it speaks ; as in Jer. i. 10, " See, I have this day set thee over the nations, and...destroy, and to throw down, to build and to plant :" Ezek. xliii. 3, " And it was according to the appearance of the vision, which I saw when 1 came...