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the Chaldean army, it meant a complete national ruin, and if
they submitted, an unconditional servitude. It is evident,
therefore, that Jeremiah uses the term "Shalom" in the sense
of a tangible, concrete, and real religious system which Islam
comprises. To make it more clear, we should attentively
listen to the arguments of the two opponent prophets dis-
cussing and disputing the national question in the presence of
a wicked king and his court of vile flatterers and depraved
hypocrites. Jeremiah has at heart the cause of God and His
religion of peace, and in the vital interests of the religion
of peace, or Islam, he advises the wicked king and his courti-
ers to submit to the yoke of Babylon and serve the Chaldeans
and live. For there was no other alternative open to them.
They had abandoned the God of their forefathers, polluted
His temple, mocked and reviled His prophets, and committed
evil and treachery (2 Chron. xxxvi. etc.). So God had
delivered them into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar, and would
they submitted, an unconditional servitude. It is evident,
therefore, that Jeremiah uses the term "Shalom" in the sense
of a tangible, concrete, and real religious system which Islam
comprises. To make it more clear, we should attentively
listen to the arguments of the two opponent prophets dis-
cussing and disputing the national question in the presence of
a wicked king and his court of vile flatterers and depraved
hypocrites. Jeremiah has at heart the cause of God and His
religion of peace, and in the vital interests of the religion
of peace, or Islam, he advises the wicked king and his courti-
ers to submit to the yoke of Babylon and serve the Chaldeans
and live. For there was no other alternative open to them.
They had abandoned the God of their forefathers, polluted
His temple, mocked and reviled His prophets, and committed
evil and treachery (2 Chron. xxxvi. etc.). So God had
delivered them into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar, and would