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Excerpt from Jeremiah the Man and His Message I. First of all, then, we must realize that he makes no pretence to be a theological teacher. The prophets were not dogmatists; least of them all was Jeremiah one. He apprehends truth in the concrete. The material with which he dealsis not abstract ideas but religious experience - first and foremost, his own. Among the most distinctive of his writings is a series of poems relating to the Scythian Invasion already mentioned in which, from first to last, there is practically no dogma, nor any attempt to convey theological truth! But only the quick response of a tender and passionate nature to what was passing around. It is, I think, certain that these Scythian Songs dirges might be a better name for them, but there is too much of life and action in them to permit the phrase) were the earliest of his utterances; and from that fact we may infer that he was called to the front, and became conscious of his prophetic vocation, not in connexion with any. Special message he had to deliver, but under what was, to him, the imperious necessity to sympathize with his people under 'a sudden and terrible calamity. 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.

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