Excerpt from The Prophecies of Jeremiah: With a Sketch of His Life and Times Summaries of the prophet's teaching on many distinct occasions, and as such might have been composed anywhere. There can be no doubt, however, that the principal contents of his book have their scene in Jerusalem. In chap. Ii. 1, 2, indeed, we have what looks like the prophet's introduction to the scene of his future activity. And there fell a word of Iahvah unto me, saying, Go and cry in the ears of jerusalem. But the words are not found in the ...
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Excerpt from The Prophecies of Jeremiah: With a Sketch of His Life and Times Summaries of the prophet's teaching on many distinct occasions, and as such might have been composed anywhere. There can be no doubt, however, that the principal contents of his book have their scene in Jerusalem. In chap. Ii. 1, 2, indeed, we have what looks like the prophet's introduction to the scene of his future activity. And there fell a word of Iahvah unto me, saying, Go and cry in the ears of jerusalem. But the words are not found in the LXX., which begins chap. Ii. Thus: And he said, These things saith the Lord, I remembered the lovingkindness (???'keoq) of thy youth, and the love of thine espousals But whether these words of the received Hebrew text be genuine or not, it is plain that if, as the terms of the prophet's commission affirm, he was to be an embattled city, and a pillar of iron, and walls of bronze to-the kings of Judah, to her princes, to her priests, as well as to the country folk (i. Jerusalem, the residence of kings and princes and chief priests, and the centre of the land, would be the natural sphere of his operations. The same thing is implied in the Divine statement A nabz to the nations have I made thee (i. The prophet of Judea could only reach the go'yz'm - the surrounding foreign peoples through the government of his own country, and through his in uence upon Judean policy. The leaving of his native place, sooner or later, seems to be involved in the words (i. 7, 8) And Iahvah said unto me, Say not, I am a youth: for upon whatsoever (journey) I send thee, thou shalt go (gen. Xxiv. And with whomsoever I charge thee, thou shalt speak (gen. Xxiii. Be not afraid of them I The Hebrew is to some extent ambiguous. We might also render: Unto whomsoever I send thee, thou shalt go and what. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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