...transgression is sealed up in a bag ;" " that the iniquity of Ephraim is bound up ; his sin is hid ;" that " the sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond."1 If they mean, as they certainly do, that vengeance will be recompensed, there can be no...

...may be for the time to come for ever and ever : that this is a rebellious people." JER. xvii. 1. " The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and...diamond : it is graven upon the table of their heart." * The writing it on a table would be to give publicity to it— the noting it in a book, to perpetuate...

...written," (as Job wished his words to be written, when he desired them to be remembered for ever,) " The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron and with a point of a diamond." The sins of men are written in the book of God's remembrance, and that book...

...in the Trinity. Your faith is written, and your sin is written, as Jeremias said: 'Thy sin, O Judas, is written with a pen of iron and with the point of a diamond. And it is written,' he says, 'on thy breast and on thy heart.'7 So sin is there where grace is ; but...

...him ; and each soul is as a leaf in that book, upon •which he will be employed in inscribing, as " with a pen of iron and with the point of a diamond," characters not to be effaced, while eternity lasts, and God lives to reward his fidelity or punish...

...Shakespeare names "men's evil manners living in brass," and Whitney, "harms grauen in marble hard." "The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and...the table of their heart and upon the horns of your altar." And the writing in water or in the dust is in the exact spirit of the words, " they that depart...

...fastened an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond. And again, in the seventeenth chapter of Jeremiah — ' The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond.' It is worth noting that only the natural point of the diamond, and not that obtained by polishing, will cut...

...hearts. Israel had always suffered with selfinflicted spiritual heart trouble. Note the divine diagnosis: ev. 12:14). 14. Psalm 50 Selection: "Gather my saints together unto me; those that hav engraved upon the tablet of their hearts ..." (Jer. 17:1). But under the new covenant the heavenly...

...sad happenings which make up the bulk of this seventh book of the canon! But alas, the sin of Israel is written "with a pen of iron and with the point of a diamond." Though Israel wash herself "with nitre" and take "much soap," yet is her iniquity here marked for all...

...veritas te non deserant; circumda eas gutteri tuo, et describe in tabulis cordis tui." Cf. Jeremiah i7:i: "The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and...of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars." 5 i On the close conceptual relationship of the "topics" of rhetoric, logic, and mnemonics in antiquity,...