(ll) We don't certainly know at what time.] Some are of opinion, that Baruch went not to Babylon till after the death of his Master Jeremiah, to whom he was too far engaged ever to quit him, and they confirm this opinion by the 2d Verse, where mention is made of the burning of Jerusa∣lem. Others say, he wrote his Book before the destruction of Jerusalem, because he there speaks of Sacrifices and Consecrated Vessels, which makes them believe, that he was one of those that were deputed in the fourth year of Zedekiah, of whom Saraiah the Brother of Baruch was chief. They affirm therefore, that having carried the Book of Isaiah thither, he composed his Prophecy the year following to comfort the Captives, and that the fifth year after the taking of Jerusalem, which is mentioned in the second Verse, ought to be com∣puted from the Captivity of Jechoniah.
A new history of ecclesiastical writers containing an account of the authors of the several books of the Old and New Testament, of the lives and writings of the primitive fathers, an abridgement and catalogue of their works ... also a compendious history of the councils, with chronological tables of the whole / written in French by Lewis Ellies du Pin.
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