Thus when we confess that the Church is built upon the foundation of the Prophets and Apostles, we have to recognise that to this foundation Jeremiah's ministry supplied indispensable elements, alike by its positive and in its negative parts. This fact was manifest even to Renan, who fully shared the popular prejudices against Jeremiah. Nothing short of Christianity, according to him, is the realisation of the prophet's dream: "Il ajoute un facteur essentiel à l'œuvre humaine; Jérémie est, avant Jean-Baptiste, l'homme qui a le plus contribué à la fondation du Christianisme; il doit compter, malgré la distance des siècles, entre les précurseurs immédiats de Jésus."[458]
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[453] 2 Macc. ii. 1-8.
[454] 2 Macc. xv. 12-16.
[455] Ecclus. xlix. 6, 7.
[456] Sometimes appended to the Book of Baruch as a sixth chapter.
[457] Smith's _Dictionary of the Bible_, art. "Jeremiah."
[458] _Hist._, iii., 251, 305.
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