Jeremiah.
Jeremiah.
§ 152. Jeremiah is called 
, “the elevated and exalted of the Lord.” He prophesied under Josiah, Jehoiakim, and Zedekiah.
** He was deported into Egypt along with the rest of the people of Judah by Johanan, son of Kareah. He died in Tahpanhes, stoned by his own people, and was buried there. **
Alexander Polyhistor writes this about him:
At the time of Jehoiakim, Jeremiah prophesied, whom God had sent. When he found the Jews sacrificing to a golden image whose name was Baal, he foretold that a disaster would overcome them because of this. As a result, Jehoiakim commanded him to be burned alive. [Jeremiah] also said that those whom the Assyrian king had captured would make pits of the same wood near the Tigris and Euphrates. King Nebuchadnezzar heard this, took along King Stibar of the Medes to help, and overthrew first the cities of the Samaritans—Galilaea, Scythopolis, and Galatis—with 180[,000] foot soldiers, 120,000 cavalry, and 10,000 chariots. Next, he captured Jerusalem and took the king of the Jews alive and deported to Babylon the gold, silver, bronze, and everything else that had been in the temple with the exception of the ark and the tablets of the Law.
Ludovicus Vives (commentary on Augustine’s De civ. Dei, bk. 18, c. 25) quotes this from Alexander.
Augustine himself writes this about the times when Jeremiah prophesied (De civ. Dei, bk. 18, c. 33): “Jeremiah prophesied while Josiah was ruling in Jerusalem, Ancus Martius was ruler among the Romans, and the captivity of the Jews was approaching. His time of prophesying reached to the fifth month of the captivity, just as we find in his writing.” Augustine writes regarding Jeremiah that “Plato heard him teach in Egypt” (De doctr. Christ., bk. 2, c. 28). Later, however, he realized that this was false and retracted it (Retractat., bk. 2, c. 4), and in De civit. Dei, bk. 8, c. 11, he writes: “Plato was born a hundred years after Jeremiah.” A true reckoning of the chronology shows that there were about two hundred years between the births of Jeremiah and Plato. In De civit. Dei, bk. 18, c. 37, Augustine again teaches, correctly, that Plato was born not long after Ezra because Ezra died in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes (as Nauclerus witnesses, vol. 1, generat. 54). Ezra died in the eighty-sixth Olympiad, and Plato was born in the eighty-eighth Olympiad, according to Apollodorus (Chronica). Whatever the situation may be, it is certain that Plato read the Books of Moses and of the prophets and transferred many things from them into his own books, as Eusebius proves (Praeparat. evangel., bk. 11).
Jeremiah’s prophecy covers fifty-two chapters, which can be divided into introduction, which explains Jeremiah’s calling to the prophetic ministry [munus]; narrative, which contains the prophecy itself, directed partly to the Jews and partly to the foreign enemies of the Jews, namely, the Gentiles; and conclusion, which includes a summary of the history of the city captured and the kingdom overthrown by the Chaldeans.