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Jeremiah
Old Testament prophet who foretold the destruction of Jerusalem and the new covenant.
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Also known as holy Jeremiah, Zephaniah, the prophet Zephaniah, who prophesied with Jeremiah, Zephaniah
First appearance: part i book i
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Prophet whom some thought Plato might have heard in Egypt, but chronology disproves this.
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- How Plato has been able to approach so nearly to Christian knowledge
- Book XVII: The Prophetic Age and the City of God
- I
- Of Jeroboam, who profaned the people put under him by the impiety of idolatry, amid which, however, God did not cease to inspire the prophets, and to guard many from the crime of idolatry.
- Book XVIII
- Chapter XXV: Philosophers During the Reigns of Tarquinius Priscus and Zedekiah
- Chapter XXVI
- What Jeremiah and Zephaniah have, by the prophetic Spirit, spoken before concerning Christ and the calling of the nations
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