Jeremiah, prophet of the Bible:
87th great-granduncle
We know more about
Jeremiah than any of the other pre-Exilic writers because he dictated
his sermons and autobiography to his scribal pupil, Baruch. His life
was closely interwoven with the tragic history of his country. He
saw the nation as woefully sinful, hastening to its doom. Under the
threat of Nebuchadnezzar's Babylonian
army, he became unpopular by preaching defeatism. He said the people
and their rulers were themselves the authors of their danger through
their own wickedness. The enemy was merely the instrument of God's
wrath, and was thus bound to prevail. |
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