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prophet who predicts "peace" as an abstract, vague and
temporary condition cannot succeed in proving his identity
thereby. In fact, the point of dispute, or rather the critical
national question, controverted by the two eminent prophets
known to the court and the nation like Jeremiah and Hana-
niah (Jer. xxviii.), could not be solved and definitely settled
by the affirmation of the one and the denial of the other, of
the imminent catastrophe. To predict "peace" by Jeremiah
when he had all the time been predicting the great national
disaster - either by the submission of the King Sidaqia to
the Chaldean sovereign or by his resistance - would not
only involve his failure, not to talk of his being a success in
proving his veracity, but also it would make him even ridi-
culous. For, in either case, his presumed "peace" would
mean no peace at all. On the contrary, if the Jews resisted
temporary condition cannot succeed in proving his identity
thereby. In fact, the point of dispute, or rather the critical
national question, controverted by the two eminent prophets
known to the court and the nation like Jeremiah and Hana-
niah (Jer. xxviii.), could not be solved and definitely settled
by the affirmation of the one and the denial of the other, of
the imminent catastrophe. To predict "peace" by Jeremiah
when he had all the time been predicting the great national
disaster - either by the submission of the King Sidaqia to
the Chaldean sovereign or by his resistance - would not
only involve his failure, not to talk of his being a success in
proving his veracity, but also it would make him even ridi-
culous. For, in either case, his presumed "peace" would
mean no peace at all. On the contrary, if the Jews resisted