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The prophets who have been before me and before you of old prophesied against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.
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The Pattern of True Prophets
Jeremiah makes an appeal to history. Commentators explain that he is making an "inductive argument": the great prophets of the past (like Isaiah, Amos, and Micah) consistently warned of judgment—war, famine, and pestilence—as a consequence of sin. A message of unconditional peace was the exception, not the rule, making a prophet who only spoke of good times immediately suspect.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Jeremiah’s own wishes concurred with Hananiah’s prediction, but he asserts that this prediction was at variance with the language of the older prop…
19th Century
Anglican
The prophets that have been before me and before you ... —The appeal to the past is of the nature of an inductive argumen…
16th Century
Protestant
Jeremiah, having testified that he did not wish for anything harmful to his own people, but wished them well, now adds that what he had predicted w…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
The prophets that have been before me, and before you of old , &c.] Such as Isaiah, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Micah, Nahum,…
Hananiah spoke a false prophecy. His prophecy contained no word of good counsel urging the Jews to repent and return to God. He promises temporal m…
13th Century
Catholic
Here, Jeremiah’s response is given. First, he shows his emotion by desiring that what he had said would be fulfilled: amen
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