This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VII IN THE WAKE OF THE REFORM WE have now entered upon the second period of Jeremiah's career. The promulgation of the Deuteronomic law in 621 was an event which could not fail to change the character of his ministry whatever his original attitude to that transaction may have been. From that ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VII IN THE WAKE OF THE REFORM WE have now entered upon the second period of Jeremiah's career. The promulgation of the Deuteronomic law in 621 was an event which could not fail to change the character of his ministry whatever his original attitude to that transaction may have been. From that time till the tragic death of Josiah in 608 we may assume that an effort was made to carry out the legislative provisions of the Covenant; and Jeremiah must have watched with deep concern the effect of the new order of things on the religious temper of the nation. Soon after the death of Josiah the threatening aspect of foreign affairs made Jeremiah a prominent actor on the stage of history, and he continued to work in the full blaze of publicity till near the end of his life. Between these dates there is an interval of about thirteen years during which our knowledge of the prophet's activity is certainly very imperfect. It has been a common opinion among his commentators that so far as extant prophecies are concerned this interval is an almost complete blank in his history. The fact is sometimes explained by the assumption that the conduct of public affairs was very much in harmony with Jeremiah's ideals and gave him no occasion to intervene; sometimes by the suggestion that he had been reduced to silence by the failure of his early Scythian predictions. Neither of these considerations has much plausibility in itself, and the fact which they are put forward to explain is at least incapable of proof. When Jeremiah says (xxv. 3) that he had exercised an unremitting ministry of three and twenty years from the thirteenth year of Josiah to the fourth of Jehoiakim, it would be surprising if more than the half of that period had left no literary...
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