There are men who, every time the wheel revolves, become worse in character, and more depraved in mind there are men who, by the very providence which is blessed to others, become more completely adept in iniquity, and masters in crime. There are some men who are evidently to the casual observer, vessels not adapted for the high and honourable occupations of heaven and glory. The wheel of circumstances is continually revolving men, like masses of clay are placed upon it, but they are not all formed alike. We now conduct you to a greater workshop, to the great potter’s house of Providence. The wheel is revolving, and from it you see continually taken, vessels of an ignoble kind, suited only for the very lowliest purposes, and on the other hand, from the same clay you see produced, vessels that might grace the palace of a king, vessels of honour fit for honourable purposes. There in the workshop you perceive various vessels in the process of formation. The context invites us to visit the potter’s house.
We must take the next verse to complete our text-“Even us, whom he has called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles.”Ģ. It is with no view to controversy that I have selected this text, but for a far higher and more practical purpose, namely, that by this truth, many of us may search ourselves, and that we may be able to discover whether we have any of the marks of the vessels of mercy which God has before prepared for glory. Even us, whom he has called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles. Spurgeon, At Exeter Hall, Strand.Īnd that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had before prepared for glory. 1915.A Sermon Delivered On Sunday Morning, August 5, 1860, By Pastor C. "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". Between these possibilities the commentaries are almost equally divided. In 1 Thessalonians 4:4 "vessel" may be taken as a figure for either the man's own body or for his wife. But the figure of such "vessels" as (passively) filled with different contents is not Biblical. see POTTER), and through Acts 9:15 the word "vessel" has passed into Christian theology as signifying simply a human being.
Vessels of all sorts and kinds and for all sorts of uses were so familiar as to make them natural illustrations for different sorts of human beings ( Hosea 8:8 Isaiah 22:24 Jeremiah 22:28, etc. A different use is that of The Wisdom of Solomon 14:1, where "vessel" represents ploion, "a boat," while The Wisdom of Solomon 14:5,6 the King James Version has "weak vessel" for schedia, "raft" (so the Revised Version (British and American)). In addition, "vessel" appears in Isaiah 30:14 for nebhel, "jar" in Matthew 13:48 for aggos, "vessels" and in Sirach 21:14 Matthew 25:4 for aggeion, a diminutive form of aggos. For war among the Hebrews was a holy function, calling for extreme ceremonial purity ( Deuteronomy 23:9-14). But in 1 Samuel 21:8, in the immediate context of the verse above, keli certainly means "weapons," and this translation is quite intelligible in 21:5 also. English Versions of the Bible evidently intended something in the nature of provision wallets, and the "holiness" of such objects finds partial parallels in Numbers 19:15 Leviticus 11:32-34, etc. In 1 Samuel 21:5, however, the translation of the plural of keli by "vessels" is dubious.
Is used freely in English Versions of the Bible to translate keli, the Aramaic ma'n, and skeuos, words all meaning "an implement or utensil" of any kind, when the context shows that a hollow utensil is meant. Encyclopedias - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Vessel
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