This is the text of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the surviving elders among the exiles and to the priests, the prophets, and all the others Nebuchadnezzar had carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon. / (This was after King Jeconiah, the queen mother, the...
--Jeremiah 6:17 "And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none." --Ezekiel 22:30 "These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word...
Isaiah warned that God would discipline the Israelites for their idolatrous unfaithfulness. He prophesied about one hundred years before the destruction of Jerusalem, their temple, and their seventy-year exile in Babylon (Isaiah 39:6-7; see Jeremiah 25:11-12). Isaiah also prophesied that God wo...
I’m afraid that I am easily distracted. I still need to write another post on theSacra Parallelaof John Damascene (d. 745). But while looking at Lequien’s 1712 edition, I found at the start of volume 1, on p.i-xxiv, a “Vita”: a hagiographical “Life” of John Damascene. Th...
Jeremiah 3:10-11 And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD. And the LORD said unto me, “The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.�? (KJV) Israel had turned away from...
Wt,3/15/1972, pg 189...commission to speak as a “prophet” in His name... Wt,9/1/1979, pg 29,...those of the Jeremiah class have been sent by Jehovah to speak in his name...back up their message by quoting the words, “This is what Jehovah has said.” C. They...
The first verse comes from Jeremiah 31, it talks about a new covenant. And there are many, many verses in Tanach that talk about a New Covenant. And this one goes: "Behold the day is coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the House of Israel and with the ...