Jeremiah 45 - Introduction

Baruch being dismayed, Jeremiah instructeth and comforteth him.

Before Christ 606.

THIS chapter evidently belongs to the 36th; but Grotius gives a reason why the collectors of Jeremiah's prophesies placed it here. "The prophesies and histories," says he, "being finished, which belonged to the kings and people of Judah, one is subjoined belonging to a single person; as in the epistles of St. Paul to the churches are subjoined what concern particular persons." The prophet afterwards adds the prophesies that respect other nations, with which his book concludes. As to the last chapter, we shall deliver our opinion when we come to it.