The tale is told. In meagre and broken outline I have laid before you the known facts of a life which must always possess permanent interest, not only for the student of religious development, but for all men who are stirred by human passion, and stimulated by human thought. And fully conscious as I am of failure in the attempt to reanimate the dry bones of history, to give form and colour and movement to the shadows of the past; I shall not have spent my pains for nought, if I have awakened in a single heart some spark of living interest in the heroes of old; some enthusiasm for the martyrs of faith; some secret yearning to cast in their own lot with those who have fought the battle of truth and righteousness and to share with the saints departed in the victory that overcometh the world. And even if in this also I have fallen short of the mark, these desultory and imperfect sketches of a good man's life and work will not have been wholly barren of result, if they lead any one of my readers to renewed study of that truly sacred text which preserves to all time the living utterances of this last of the greater prophets.
[1] The same root is used in the Targ. on i. 15 for _setting_ or fixing thrones, cf. Dan. vii. 9: (רְמִיו)
[2] Clem. Alex., _Strom._, I., § 120.
[3] At least seven times.
[4] Hitzig.
[5] i. 6.
[6] i. 2, xxv. 3.
[7] נער _puer_; (1) Ex. ii. 6, of a three months' babe; (2) of a young man up to about the twentieth year, Gen. xxxiv. 19, of Shechem ben Hamor; 1 Kings iii. 7, of Solomon, as here.
[8] Hitzig, _Vorbemerkungen_.
[9] The Cimmerians are the Gomer of Scripture, the Gimirrâ'a of the cuneiform inscriptions.
[10] Ewald, _Die Psalmen_, 165.
[11] Zeph. ii. 4 _sqq._, תהיה עזובה עזה ... תעקר עקרון
[12] התורה ספר, 2 Kings xxii. 8; הברית ספר, 2 Kings xxiii. 2.
[13] Comparing the Hebrew verb with the Arabic [Arabic: **] _timuit_, _fastidivit_. LXX., κἀγὼ ἠμέλησα αὐτῶν, Cf. Jer. iii. 14. Gesenius rendered _fastidivit_, _rejecit_.
[14] So rightly the Syriac, for Jehoiakim.
[15] _i.e._ To scent food afar off, like beasts of prey. There was no occasion to alter A.V.