If Exod. five. 22-6. 1 used to be no longer, in Jeremiah's days, a part of Moses' conventional name narratives (J, E, P), those may simply have contained an objection of the 1st variety. in reality, an objection of the second one sort could were redundant because the name was once largely a decision of weal instead of woe. If Jeremiah modelled his name narrative upon any such Mosaic precursor, the paradigmatic objection might even be of the 1st variety, because it in truth looks insofar because it relates to the difficulty of now understanding how you can communicate. Had Jeremiah's name been one to be a prophet of weal from the outset, this could have sufficed and there will be little need for a convoluted look for the cause of the 'suppression of the second one objection'. Nor could there be a necessity for a moment objection if the character of the decision was once ambiguous or opaque on the outset, as Lundbom, for instance, 190 The Bridling of the Tongue posits. provided that the decision was once sour from the outset may still the explanation be sought, for in a different way the acceptance of the prophet is finished for (any final uncertainty in regards to the 'suppression of the second one objection' in Jeremiah's name narrative will be resolved within the subsequent bankruptcy given that Ezekiel's name narrative, it will likely be argued, is modelled upon that of Jeremiah yet underscores this suppression extra clearly). if that's the case, the version for a decision narrative containing the second one objection must be mediated via one other culture, for instance the decision of Isaiah. Traditions approximately Moses' intercessory features may in fact have impacted upon prophetic and editorial reflections at the method during which prophets may still reply to commissions of woe be those given in initiatory visions and oracles or as a consequence. The Targum ingeniously makes Jeremiah conscious that his prophecy involves preaching woe (see its growth and remark at the previous verses). The Targum's translation of his excuse, 'I don't know the way to prophesy' is to be understood to intend 'I have no idea tips to communicate in a fashion that might make the folk righteous' in order that the certainty of prophecy here's kind of like on the subject of Isaiah (see dialogue of Targ. Isa. to six. 6; 50. 1 and 29. 24; 32. 1-4; 35. 4-6 in bankruptcy three above). In different phrases, the Targum is doing issues: First, it ascribes to Jeremiah a resistance to being a messenger of woe, that's, it turns Jeremiah's excuse right into a moment objection. Secondly, it turns the excuse no longer into an objection opposed to accepting the decision yet right into a petition for wisdom that would permit him to prophesy, that's, to talk in a manner that may justify and acquit his humans. In influence, the Targum's Jeremiah has discovered from the Targum's and Midrash's Isaiah and Moses that prophecy calls for the present of the 'disciple's tongue'. The Targum therefore means that in Jeremiah's case, the second one objection is conquer via his understanding that prophecy is essentially artistic and therapeutic. four. three. The Divine Reassurance (1. 7, eight) 7 however the Lord stated to me, 'Say no longer "I am a child," for them shall visit all that I shall ship thee, and whatever I command thee thou shah converse.