Edited sentence: "Are not all my words as fire, sayeth the LORD, and a hammer that shatters rock".31:31–34).As such it was quoted by Saint Paul in his Letter to the Hebrews, while a theme known as the Lamentations, whose subject is Jeremiah's sorrow at the destruction of Jerusalem, is not only part of the readings in the liturgical year but has given rise to some of the greatest Christian works of art, whether in painting (Rembrand), sculpture (Sluter) or music (Scarlatti).Christianity broadly shares the Judaic tradition with respect to its prophets but with an additional focus on elements that might prefigure the coming of Christ.Commentator Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel wrote that the book is written as if Jeremiah not only heard as words but personally felt in his body and emotions the experience of what he prophesied:.Consensus among scholars has not been reached on the multiple source view.These views of Multiple Sources are however based on a view that anything that is not new information in an ancient text is borrowed from somewhere else.This is where Jeremiah has been of central importance in Christianity insofar as he is a prophet who made an explicit reference to the New Covenant that it incarnates (Jer.This view refutes that any author could have used other famous works and or worldviews to strengthen or draw similarities to details in their works.While most Liberal Scholars hold this view, few Conservative ones do.was a clue as to how difficult the overwhelming, personality-shattering experience of being a vehicle for Divine revelation was, on one of the most difficult tasks ever assigned, and how difficult it was to be able to see, in advance, one's own failure