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128history. 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 “shālōm” as the name of the religion of Abraham (pbuh) and common to all the different peoples descended from him was no longer remembered. It isfrom this point of view that I regard this passage of Jeremiah as one of the golden texts in the Hebrew sacredwrit.