But do not the closing lines give almost a reflexion of Jeremiah’s attitude towards Jehoiakim ? Savonarola had, I suppose, a richer nature than Jeremiah. I admit that Jeremiah had not the hopefulness described in the opening lines Jerusalem was a less promising field of work than, with all its faults, Florence was in the age of Lorenzo. “This was he, Savonarola, who, while Peter sank With his whole boat-load, cried courageously, ‘Wake, Christ wake, Christ!’ Who also by a princely deathbed cried, ‘Loose Florence, or God will not loose thy soul!’ Then fell back the Magnificent and died Beneath the star-look shooting from the cowl, Which turned to wormwood-bitterness the wide Deep sea of his ambitions”. 22), and whom a sympathetic poetess has painted perhaps more truly than her sister-artist in prose.’ … I would rather compare Jeremiah with one who was mighty both in words and in deeds (Acts vii. Cheyne’s comparisons between Jeremiah and Savonarola, in whom, he writes, “several of the old Hebrew prophets seemed united” ( Jeremiah: His Life and Times, Google Books, pp. The prophet Jeremiah had sais almost identically (Jeremiah 20:9): “If I say, ‘I will not mention him, or speak any more in his name,’ then within me there is something like a burning fire shut up in my bones I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot’.” I was alight with the spirit of the Lord. To speak the Lord’s words has been for me a burning fire within my bones and my heart. But whenever I went up into the pulpit again, I was unable to contain myself. I have sometimes thought, as I came down from the pulpit, that it would be better if I talked no more and preached no more about these things – better to give up and leave it all to God …. One has only to read, for instance, Savonarola’s purely Jeremian words (as taken from Jonathan Kirsch’s A History of the End of the World, Harper, 2006, p. The fiery Renaissance preacher, a Dominican friar, Fra Girolamo, pronouncing doom upon Florence, is a Jeremiah type, ‘coming in the spirit of Jeremiah’.Ĭommentators have readily noticed this.
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The full name of this very Jeremiah-like Jew was “Don Isaac ben Judah Abravanel”. Now, Savonarola is thought to have had a Jewish contemporary, Abravanel, whose name has some similarity to the Italian name of Savonarola. He, in fact, is often called Jerome Savonarola. The name Girolamo (Savonarola) is just the Italianised version of Jerome, which is like Jeremiah. Savonarola was, for his part “a martyr of preaching”. The sorely-tried Jeremiah did experience many ‘martyrdoms’, however, and The Jerome Biblical Commentary (19:98) actually designates the substantial block of Jeremiah 36:1-45:5, as the “Martyrdom of Jeremiah”. The prophet Jeremiah appears not to have received a full martyrdom (despite the tradition that he was murdered – stoned to death, or poisoned), though he did suffer beating, imprisonment and near death in a cistern. 600 BC) has been ghostly projected to the 1400’s AD in the form of the generic Jeremiah-like Jew, “Don Isaac ben Judah Abravanel”, who in turn can remind one of the Italian, Savonarola (1452-1498 AD). Such can be the similarities in these cases that it would almost seem as if the biblical prophet Jeremiah (c. Savonarola bears some uncanny likenesses to the Jewish Abravanel,īoth of these also sharing similarities with the ancient Jewish prophet Jeremiah.
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