Jeremiah—­10.  Contrast between Isaiah and Jeremiah in Personal Character and Circumstances—­Our Full Knowledge of his Outward Personal History and Inward Conflicts—­11.  His Priestly Descent—­His Native Place—­Period of his Prophetic Activity—­Degeneracy of the Age—­Persecutions to which his Fidelity subjected him—­He is more occupied than Isaiah with the Present—­His Mission is emphatically to unfold the Connection between National Profligacy and National Ruin; yet he sometimes describes the Glory of the Latter Days—­12.  The Chronological Order not always followed in his Prophecies—­General Divisions of them—­First Division; Second Division; Appendix—­Attempts to disprove the Genuineness of Certain Parts of Jeremiah—­The Book of Lamentations—­13.  Its Hebrew Name—­Its Authorship and the Time of its Composition—­14.  Structure of its Poetry—­III. Ezekiel—­15.  His Priestly Descent and Residence—­Notices of his Personal History—­Period of his Prophetic Activity—­16.  Peculiarities of his Style—­17.  His Allegoric and Symbolic Representations—­General Remarks on the Nature of Allegories and Symbols—­18.  The Two Divisions of the Book—­Contents of the First Part; of the Second Part—­Prophecies against Foreign Nations—­Promises relating to the Glory of the Latter Days—­Ezekiel’s Vision of a New Jerusalem with its Temple—­Meaning of this Vision and Principles according to which it is to be interpreted—­IV. Daniel—­19.  Its Place in the Hebrew Canon—­Notices of Daniel’s Personal History—­20.  Arrangement and Contents of the Book—­First Series of Prophecies; Second Series—­Intimate Connection between the Book of Daniel and the Apocalypse—­21.  Assaults made upon the Book of Daniel in Respect to its Genuineness and Credibility—­Grounds on which it is received as a Part of the Sacred Canon—­Its Unity; Uniform Tradition of the Jews and its Reliability; Testimony of Josephus; of the Saviour; Language and Style; Intimate Acquaintance with the Historical Relations and Manners and Customs of the Age—­22.  Insufficiency of the Various Objections urged against the Book—­Chronological and Historical Difficulties; Difficulties connected with the Identification of Belshazzar and Darius the Mede; Silence of Jesus the Son of Sirach respecting Daniel; Alleged Linguistic Difficulties; Commendations bestowed upon Daniel—­The Real Objection to the Book on the Part of its Opponents lies in the Supernatural Character of the Events which it records—­Remarks on this Objection

CHAPTER XXIII.

THE TWELVE MINOR PROPHETS—­1.  Jewish Arrangement of these Books—­Their Order in the Masoretic Text and in the Alexandrine Version—­2.  General Remarks on their Character I. Hosea—­3.  Period of his Prophecying and its Character—­4.  Peculiarly of his Style—­Contents of the Book II. Joel—­5.  Place and Date of his Prophecies—­6.  Character and Contents of his Book—­III. Amos—­7.