6. _Jeremiah and His Contemporaries:_ "Jeremiah was contemporary with Zephiniah, Habakkuk, Ezekiel, and Daniel. None of these, however, are in any remarkable way connected with him, except Ezekiel. The writings and character of these two eminent prophets furnish many very interesting points both of comparison and contrast. Both, during a long series of years, were laboring at the same time and for the same object. The representations of both, far separated as they were from each other, are in substance singularly accordant; yet there is at the same time a marked difference in their modes of statement, and a still more striking diversity in the character and natural disposition of the two. No one who compares them can fail to perceive that the mind of Jeremiah was of a softer and more delicate texture than that of his illustrious contemporary. His whole history convinces us that he was by nature mild and retiring." (Cycl. of Biblical Literature, Vol. II, p. 83.) LESSON XIV. SCRIPTURE READING EXERCISE--NOTE 3. _THE PROPHETIC BOOKS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT._ _(Continued.)_ ANALYSIS. REFERENCES. _I. Ezekiel, the Prophet of the Captivity._ Book of Ezekiel. All 1. Prophecies against Jerusalem and the Dictionaries, Bible the Nation, chaps. i-xxiv. Helps, Bible Treasury, 2. Prophecies of the Restoration of Kitto's Biblical Literature Israel, chaps. xxv-xxxix. previously quoted, 3. Visions of the Reconstruction of Art. "Ezekiel." Note 1. the Temple, chaps. xl-xlviii. 4. Prophecy of the Resurrection, chap. xxxvi: 1-14. _II. Daniel, Book of_ Book of Daniel I-XII. 1. Historical--i-vi. All the above Dictionaries 2. Prophetical--the Rise and Fall of and Bible Helps, Empires, vii-xii. Encyclopaedias, etc. above cited. Art. "Daniel." Church History Vol. I, Introduction, pp. xxxvi-xl. Note 2. _SPECIAL TEXT: "Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me. When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand. Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul."_--EZEKIEL. _NOTES._