Jeremiah 13:3
Then the word of the LORD came to me a second time:
BSB
ASV
And the word of Jehovah came unto me the second time, saying,
KJV
And the word of the Lord came unto me the second time, saying,
And the word of the Lord,.... The Targum is, "the word of prophecy from before the Lord:'' came unto me the second time, saying; what distance of time there was between this order and the former is not known.
HOMILIES ON THE PSALMS 45 (PS 132) (420)
We are the robe of Christ. When we have clothed him with our confession of faith, we, in turn, have put on Christ. It is the apostle who says that Christ is our robe, for when we are baptized, we put on Christ. We both clothe and are clothed. Would you like to know in what manner we clothe the Lord? We read in Jeremiah: "Go buy yourself a linen loincloth. Wear it on your loins, and go to the Euphrates. There hide it in a cleft of the rock.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
