149. 'As the vessels of a potter shall they be broken in pieces signifies like little things of no account. 'The vessels of a potter' is said because by them are signified the things that are of one's own intelligence, which are all untrue and in themselves of no account. Likewise in David:-
Thou shalt bruise the nations with an iron rod, thou shalt shatter them like the vessel of a potter Ps. ii 9.
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