The scroll might have been drawn up by Baruch from memoranda of his own without the prophet’s direct authority. The princes therefore did not ask f…

Tell us now, How didst thou write ...? —The question was clearly put as a judicial interrogatory. The princes were anxious to asce…

The king’s counselors were, no doubt, so astonished when they heard that these threats had been written as the Prophet had dictated them, that they…

And they asked Baruch
The following question, which may seem at first sight an odd, needless, and trifling one, as s…

Shows of piety and devotion may be found even among those who, though they keep up forms of godliness, are strangers and enemies to its power.

Here, the declaration to the king is given.

1. He speaks of the preparation of the declaration, as they propose to announce it: