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flee to Egypt, carrying Jeremiah with them. Even in Egypt
he prophesies against the fugitives and the Egyptians. He
must have ended his life in Egypt.
His books, as it now stands, is quite different from the
text of the Septuagint; evidently the copy from which the
Greek text was written by the Alexandrian translators had a
different order of chapters.
The Biblical critics consider that Jeremiah was the
author, or, at any rate, a compiler, of the fifth book of the
Pentateuch called Deuteronomy. I myself am of the same
opinion. Jeremiah was a Levite and a priest as well as a
prophet. There is much of Jeremiah's teachings in Deutero-
nomy which are unknown in the rest of the Old Testament
writings. And I take one of these teachings for my present
subject, which I consider as one of the gems or golden texts
he prophesies against the fugitives and the Egyptians. He
must have ended his life in Egypt.
His books, as it now stands, is quite different from the
text of the Septuagint; evidently the copy from which the
Greek text was written by the Alexandrian translators had a
different order of chapters.
The Biblical critics consider that Jeremiah was the
author, or, at any rate, a compiler, of the fifth book of the
Pentateuch called Deuteronomy. I myself am of the same
opinion. Jeremiah was a Levite and a priest as well as a
prophet. There is much of Jeremiah's teachings in Deutero-
nomy which are unknown in the rest of the Old Testament
writings. And I take one of these teachings for my present
subject, which I consider as one of the gems or golden texts