While it seems indisputable that historical contingencies affected unqualified predictions, evangelicals have differed over the breadth of their influence. Did tacit conditions apply only to a small class of unqualified predictions? Or did conditions attach to all of these prophecies? An answer to this question appears in the eighteenth chapter of Jeremiah, which describes the prophet’s experience at the potter’s house. This passage stood against the backdrop of false views concerning the inviolability
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