Mary Chilton Callaway - Jeremiah Through the Centuries

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon the Book of the Prophet Jeremiah , London, 1660, p. 219

“How comes it that such ancient faith has so wholly faded from among Christian mankind? Where shall we to‐day look for a preacher, fearless, plain‐spoken, earnest, sincere, like Jeremiah? If he were among us, would he fare much better than the prophet?”

Cunningham Geikie, Hours with the Bible : From Manasseh to Zedekiah, 1887, p. 158

“Jeremiah has proved a sympathizing companion and comforter in seasons of individual suffering and national calamity from the first destruction of Jerusalem down to the siege of Paris in our own day.”

In Preface by the General Editor to Carl Wilhelm Eduard Nägelsbuch’s Book of Jeremiah, 1871, p. i

“Children, being with God does not make one happy. We learn this from Jeremiah.”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, children’s meditation, 1927, in The Young Bonhoeffer , p. 514

“Jeremiah was a bullfrog.”

Hoyt Axton, 1971

“Among the prophets Jeremiah seems to me the most ‘modern’ of sensibilities, kin to the wager of Paschal, Kierkegaard’s bleak isolation and abandonment, Hopkins’ dark night, let us dare say, kin to Graham Green’s: ‘My salvation is: I do not believe my disbelief.’”

Dan Berrigan, Jeremiah: The World, the Wound of God , Minneapolis: Fortress, 1999, p.88

“ Who reads Jeremiah for pleasure?”

M.D. Aeschliman, Review of Jonathan Swift: A Hypocrite Reversed , National Review October 24, 1986, p. 54

“‘He’s a right Jeremiah.’ That means a depressing and pessimistic person who will be the wet blanket at every party.”

Alan Pain, I am Jeremiah ( Don’t Laugh ), East Sussex, Kingsway, 1990

“What’s wrong with America is not a very complicated question. It can put in just a few words from the Prophet Jeremiah.”

Darryl Walker, America’s Return: Solutions from the Prophet Jeremiah , Tate Publishing, 2016

“Jeremiah puts us on edge with ourselves.”

Renita J. Weems in Global Bible Commentary , ed. Daniel Patte, Nashville: Abingdon, 2004, p. 224

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