예레미야 6:16의 인용 해설

rest Heb. הרגעי, an expression of מרגועַ rest.

With the crown that a living man of great deeds,¹II Samuel, 23:20; I Chronicles, 11:22. has crowned you with this wondrous work.²This is a paraphrase of the following verse in the Song of Songs. “O maidens of Zion, go forth and gaze upon King Solomon wearing the crown that his mother gave him on his wedding day, on the day of bliss” [Song of Songs, 3:11]. He has gleaned among the sheaves behind the reapers³Ruth, 2:7. of grain, and collected after the gatherers, once up once down,⁴II Kings, 4:35. one here and one there in the Midrashim, in the aggadot, in the words of Rashi, Ramban, Rabbenu Bahya, Hizkuni, Zeror ha-Mor, Toldot Yitzhak, and the other commentaries in every Torah portion, all of their words that are closest to the plain meaning of the text and brought them into this work in the language of Ashkenaz. Since the usefulness of this work for men and women who will find tranquility for themselves,⁵Jeremiah, 6:16. a place of rest for their souls in order to understand the words of the living God,⁶Jeremiah, 23:36. exceeding in rank and exceeding in honor,⁷Genesis, 49:3. in the shameful language.

רגע Who stilleth.¹⁶A. V., Who divided. Some say that גער ═ רגע who rebuketh, by metathesis; others compare it with מרגוע rest (Jer. 6:17), and render it who giveth rest; I approve of this latter explanation. ¹⁷These words are not directly mentioned in the text; and the remark on it seems to belong to the explanation of the word רגע; but indirectly I. E. intended by the words אחר שהמו גליו to paraphrase the words ויהמו גליו and to indicate that, although placed after רגע they do not express the effect, but rather the cause.ויהמו גליו Whose waves roared, that is, whose waves have been roaring. The meaning of the verse might also be the following: I am he who stilleth the sea, but I am also he who commandeth that its waves shall roar. Sea and waves are figurative expressions for the oppressors.