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They asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How did you write all these words at his mouth?
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A Question of Authority
The officials' question to Baruch was not trivial. Commentators explain it was a formal, almost legal, inquiry. They needed to establish the scroll's precise origin: was it Jeremiah's exact dictation, or had Baruch used his own notes or wording? This was crucial for them to understand the scroll's authority before reporting to the king.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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…
19th Century
Anglican
Tell us now, How didst thou write ...? —The question was clearly put as a judicial interrogatory. The princes were anxious to asce…
16th Century
Protestant
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…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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.
13th Century
Catholic
Here, the declaration to the king is given.
He speaks of the preparation of the declaration, as they propose to announce it:
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