JEREMIAH CHAPTER 45 Jeremiah instructeth and comforteth Baruch. This
chapter ought to have been annexed to the 36th chapter, or immediately
to have followed it, for the writing of Jeremiah's prophecies we read
of there. It was eighteen years before this time that the prophet thus
spake to Baruch upo... [ Continue Reading ]
Jeremiah had in his former discourses revealed the will of God
concerning nations, here he revealeth it as to Baruch his secretary or
clerk, upon which account some compare him to Paul writing to Philemon
as well as to churches.... [ Continue Reading ]
Upon Baruch's reading the prophecies after he had wrote them from the
mouth of Jeremiah, both he and Jeremiah were sent for before the
princes, and advised to hide themselves, as we read, JEREMIAH
36:15,19. This probably disturbed Baruch, and made him lament his
condition in such-like expressions, o... [ Continue Reading ]
No text from Poole on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
What great things Baruch was seeking is not expressed, and impossible
to be determined with any certainty; they could not be honour or
riches, the time of Jehoiakim's reign was no time for any pious
rational man to expect any thing of that nature; he might expect to
have been a prophet, as Elisha wa... [ Continue Reading ]