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Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Lamennais, Robert de" to "Latini, Brunetto" Volume 16, Slice 2

LAMENNAIS, HUGUES ROBERT DE LANTARA, SIMON MATHURIN LAMENTATIONS LANTERN LAMETH, ALEXANDRE VICTOR LANTERN-FLY LAMETTRIE, JULIEN OFFRAY DE LANTERNS OF THE DEAD LAMIA LANTHANUM LAMMAS LANUVIUM LÄMMERGEYER LANZA, DOMENICO GIUSEPPE MARIA LAMOIGNON LANZAROTE LAMONT, JOHANN VON LANZ...

Chapters

8. chapter v. we have a prayer for restoration: "Make us return, O Yahweh,

and we shall return!" (i.e. to our pristine state). Had Jeremiah been the author, we should have expected something more positive and definitely prophetic in tone and spirit. (T...

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LAMENNAIS, HUGUES ROBERT DE LANTARA, SIMON MATHURIN LAMENTATIONS LANTERN LAMETH, ALEXANDRE VICTOR LANTERN-FLY LAMETTRIE, JULIEN OFFRAY DE LANTERNS OF THE DEAD LAMIA LANTHANUM LA...

6. Chapter v.--A sorrowful supplication, in which the speakers deplore, not

the fall of Jerusalem, but their own state of galling dependence and hopeless poverty. They are still suffering for the sins of their fathers, who perished in the catastrophe (v...

4. chapter iii. makes an entirely new beginning, with its abruptly

independent "I am the Man!" The suppression of the Divine Name is intentional. Israel durst not breathe it, until compelled by the climax, verse 18: cf. Am. vi. 10. Contrast its...

2. Chapter ii.--"Ah how in wrath the Lord | Beclouds Bath-Sion!" The poet

laments Yahweh's anger as the true cause which destroyed city and kingdom, suspended feast and Sabbath, rejected altar and sanctuary. He mentions the uproar of the victors in th...

5. Chapter iv.

The poet shows how famine and the sword desolated Zion (verses 1-10). All was Yahweh's work; a wonder to the heathen world, but accounted for by the crimes of prophets and pries...

3. Chapter iii.--Here the nation is personified as a man (cf. Hos. xi. 1),

who laments his own calamities. In view of i. 12-22, ii. 20-22, this is hardly a serious deviation from the strict form of elegy (_Klagelied_). Budde makes much of "the close ex...

7. Chapter iv. suggests neither hope nor consolation, until the end, where