RESTORATION--III. REUNION. xxxi. 329 "I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast."--xxxi. 27 CHAPTER XXXIII RESTORATION--IV. THE NEW COVENANT. xxxi. 31-38: cf. Hebrews viii. 346 "I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah."--xxxi. 31 CHAPTER XXXIV RESTORATION--V. REVIEW. xxx.-xxxiii. 357 EPILOGUE CHAPTER XXXV JEREMIAH AND CHRIST 367 "Jehovah thy God will raise up unto thee a prophet from amongst thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him shall ye hearken."--DEUT. xviii. 15 "Jesus ... asked His disciples, saying, Who do men say that the Son of Man is? And they said, Some say John the Baptist; some, Elijah: and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets."--MATT. xvi. 13, 14 BOOK I _PERSONAL UTTERANCES AND NARRATIVES_ CHAPTER I _INTRODUCTORY:_[2] _JEHOAHAZ_ xxii. 10-12. "Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: but weep sore for him that goeth away: for he shall return no more."--JER. xxii. 10. As the prophecies of Jeremiah are not arranged in the order in which they were delivered, there is no absolute chronological division between the first twenty chapters and those which follow. For the most part, however, chapters xxi.-lii. fall in or after the fourth year of Jehoiakim (B.C. 605). We will therefore briefly consider the situation at Jerusalem in this crisis. The period immediately preceding B.C. 605 somewhat resembles the era of the dissolution of the Roman Empire or of the Wars of the French Revolution. An old-established international system was breaking in pieces, and men were quite uncertain what form the new order would take. For centuries the futile assaults of the Pharaohs had only served to illustrate the stability of the Assyrian supremacy in Western Asia. Then in the last two decades of the seventh century B.C. the Assyrian Empire collapsed, like the Roman Empire under Honorius and his successors. It was as if by some swift succession of disasters modern France or Germany were to become suddenly and permanently annihilated as a military power. For the moment, all the traditions and principles of European statesmanship would lose their meaning, and the shrewdest diplomatist would be entirely at fault. Men's reason would totter, their minds would lose their balance at the stupendous spectacle of so unparalleled a catastrophe. The wildest hopes would alternate with the extremity of fear; everything would seem possible to the conqueror.