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history. A nationalistic and Judaistic spirit of solicitude
and seclusion reigned among the small remnant of Israel;
the belief in the coming of a great Saviour to restore the
lost throne and crown of David (pbuh) was resonant, and
the old meaning of “shalom” as the name of the religion
of Abraham (pbuh) and common to all the different peoples
descended from him was no longer remembered. It is from
this point of view that I regard this passage of Jeremiah as
one of the golden texts in the Hebrew sacred writ.