NOTE III. JEREMIAH AS A TYPE OF CHRIST. St Jerome (Commentary on Jer. xxiii. 9) speaks of this prophet as one who (i) as leading a single life, (ii) as a prophet, (iii) as sanctified from the womb (compare Luke i. 15) and (iv) in his very name, the Lord's exalted one, prefigured Christ. To state the parallel more fully in the words of a modern writer: "In both there is the same early manifestation of the consciousness of a Divine mission (Luke ii. 49). The persecution which drove the prophet from Anathoth has its counterpart in that of the men of Nazareth (Luke iv. 29). His protests against the priests and prophets are the forerunners of the woes against the scribes and Pharisees (Matt. xxiii.). His lamentations over the coming miseries of his country answer to the tears that were shed over the Holy City by the Son of Man. His sufferings come nearest, of those of the whole army of martyrs, to those of the Teacher against Whom princes and priests and elders and people were gathered together. He saw more clearly than others that New Covenant, with all its gifts of spiritual life and power, which was proclaimed and ratified in the death upon the cross.' (Professor Plumptre, Sm. Bibl. Dict., Art. Jeremiah.) NOTE IV. APPROXIMATION TO A CHRONOLOGICAL ARRANGEMENT OF THE CONTENTS OF THE Book. INDEX. ** Italics are used in modern names of places, the less familiar foreign words, Azekah, 233 Azzah (=Gaza), 175 Baal, 15, 69, 224; Bosheth, 32 Babylon, presumption of, 326; date of Babylonia, fertility of, 323 baldness, 18, 304, 306; see mourning Baruch, minister to Jeremiah, 221, 241; bases, 189, 348 basons, 349 battle-axe, Assyrian, 291, 334; Babylon beard, shaving the corners of, 82; cut beauty, figures expressive of, 385 Bel, 319, 340 Ben-hadad, 314 Benjamin, territory of, I Beth-aven, 39 Beth-diblathaim, 301 Bethel, 39, 299 Beth-gamul, 301 Beth-haccerem (Beth-acharna), 52 Beth-lehem, 269; see also Ephrath Beth-shemesh, 275 bird, the people likened to a, 100; bird- bondmen, house of, 234 Book of the Law, discovery of, xv. xvii Bosheth, see Baal bottle, 104, 299 Ekron, 175. Elam, 316; bowmen of, ib. el-Busaireh, 310 "elders of Israel," 183 Elealeh, 304 Elishama, 245, 265 Elnathan, 184, 243, 245 ending, fear of an ill-omened, 352, 391 Ephraim, 65, 208; position of mount, 39 Ethiopia, 107 Ethiopians, 107, 286; see also Ebed- foxes, 391 fray, 70 fruit dedicated, 207 funerals, distribution of bread and wine ghetto, 296 Gibeon, 189, 268 Gilead, 76, 152, 287, 324 gird up thy loins, 9 give glory, 105 give the hand, 322 glaziers, diamond used by, 126 Goel, 327 gold, the people likened to, 383 Gomorrah, 162, 311, 328 grapes, sour, 214 grasshopper, 291 groves, 126 habitation, 228, 312, 323, 368 hair cut in mourning, 122, 266, 304; in hammer, God's Word likened to a, 165; Hilkiah, x., I hind, careful of its young, 110 honey, flowing with milk and, 92 Hosannah, meaning of, 208 hospice, see caravanserai host of heaven, see heavenly bodies hunting, metaphor from, 124, 325, 362, husband, the word used of God, 215 Jeconiah, see Jehoiachin Jedidah, 102 Jehoahaz, other name of, 153; Jeremiah's Jehoiachin, xxi., 157; childless, 158 Jehoiakim, character of, xviii, 151, 154, Jeremiah, meaning of name, ix.; paren- |