This essay presents a reconstruction of the Vorlage of the LXX for Jer 25:1-7, the indictment phase of an oracle that comprises vv. 1-14 (LXX vv. 1-13). I contend that the interpretive difficulties this text poses in the Old Greek are best understood as a function of its Vorlage's early editorial history. A tradent encountered two parallel literary encodings of an original prophetic oracle and combined them to form the basis of the extant LXX witness. When viewed as a synthetic, consensus document, the serious problems of literary continuity in the LXX are resolved, and new purchase on the complicated structure of the MT of Jeremiah 25 is gained. Further, the nature of the discrepancy between the two traditions hypothesized here concerns the personal authority of the prophet himself. Hence, this reconstruction also provides valuable empirical data for considering the differing perspectives on prophecy and prophetic authority that were current in the period subsequent to the fall of the house of David.
