Jeremiah the Man and His Message (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Jeremiah the Man and His Message Jeremiah was born at Anathoth. He received his call to the prophetic office in the thirteenth year of Josiah, 626 B.C., but he seems to have remained in comparative retirement for some years, a person of no particular account in the councils of his people. Beginning work early in life, he prophesied for a period of forty years, saw the downfall of his country, and apparently ended life as an exile in Egypt. The age in which he lived was stirring and eventful beyond most. The year 626 was marked by an invasion of semi-savage tribes, known as Scythians. In 620 came the Religious Reformation under Josiah, in 608, his defeat and death on the field of Megiddo. The Renaissance of Egypt, an ancient empire which, after a period of decadence, started about this time on a fresh career of political and military aggression, could not fail powerfully to affect Jewish history. Later on, in 607, came the fall of Nineveh and the dissolution of the Assyrian Empire. This was followed by the emergence at Babylon of a new Power destined, for half a century, to sway the sceptre of the East. Seldom has a single lifetime witnessed transformation so sudden and so complete. The old landmarks entirely disappeared. The old forms of thought and speech became obsolete at once. New social and political conditions called for a new conception of Religion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.