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Jeremiah
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The LORD says: “Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against those who dwell in Lebkamai, a destroying wind. See also: Jeremiah 4:11-12Hosea 13:15Amos 3:6I will send to Babylon strangers, who will winnow her. They will empty her land; for in the day of trouble they will be against her all around. See also: Matthew 3:12Jeremiah 15:7Isaiah 41:16Against him who bends, let the archer bend his bow, also against him who lifts himself up in his coat of mail. Don’t spare her young men! Utterly destroy all her army! See also: Jeremiah 50:14Jeremiah 46:4Jeremiah 50:21They will fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and thrust through in her streets. See also: Jeremiah 49:26Jeremiah 50:30Isaiah 13:15For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah, by his God, by the LORD of Armies; though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel. See also: Romans 11:1-2Zechariah 12:6Hosea 4:1“Flee out of the middle of Babylon! Everyone save his own life! Don’t be cut off in her iniquity, for it is the time of the LORD’s vengeance. He will give to her a recompense. See also: Jeremiah 50:8Jeremiah 50:28Jeremiah 50:15Babylon has been a golden cup in the LORD’s hand, who made all the earth drunk. The nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the nations have gone mad. See also: Revelation 14:8Revelation 17:4Revelation 18:3Babylon has suddenly fallen and been destroyed! Wail for her! Take balm for her pain. Perhaps she may be healed. See also: Isaiah 21:9Jeremiah 46:11Revelation 14:8“We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed. Forsake her, and let’s each go into his own country; for her judgment reaches to heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies. See also: Jeremiah 50:16Isaiah 13:14Revelation 18:5‘The LORD has produced our righteousness. Come, and let’s declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.’ See also: Jeremiah 50:28Psalms 37:6Isaiah 51:11“Make the arrows sharp! Hold the shields firmly! The LORD has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because his purpose is against Babylon, to destroy it; for it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple. See also: Jeremiah 46:4Jeremiah 50:45Jeremiah 46:9Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon! Make the watch strong! Set the watchmen, and prepare the ambushes; for the LORD has both purposed and done that which he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon. See also: Isaiah 13:2Jeremiah 51:11Nahum 2:1You who dwell on many waters, abundant in treasures, your end has come, the measure of your covetousness. See also: Revelation 17:1Isaiah 45:3Revelation 17:15The LORD of Armies has sworn by himself, saying, ‘Surely I will fill you with men, as with locusts, and they will lift up a shout against you.’ See also: Jeremiah 50:15Joel 2:25Jeremiah 49:13“He has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom. By his understanding he has stretched out the heavens. See also: Revelation 4:11Jeremiah 10:12-16Jeremiah 32:17When he utters his voice, there is a roar of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain, and brings the wind out of his treasuries. See also: Psalms 135:7Psalms 18:13Jonah 1:4“Every man has become stupid and without knowledge. Every goldsmith is disappointed by his image, for his molten images are falsehood, and there is no breath in them. See also: Habakkuk 2:18-19Jeremiah 10:14Isaiah 44:18-20They are vanity, a work of delusion. In the time of their visitation, they will perish. See also: Jeremiah 10:15Jeremiah 50:2Jeremiah 10:8The portion of Jacob is not like these, for he formed all things, including the tribe of his inheritance. The LORD of Armies is his name. See also: Psalms 73:26Jeremiah 10:16Psalms 33:12“You are my battle ax and weapons of war. With you I will break the nations into pieces. With you I will destroy kingdoms. See also: Isaiah 41:15-16Micah 4:13Isaiah 37:26With you I will break in pieces the horse and his rider. See also: Exodus 15:1Zechariah 10:5Micah 5:10With you I will break in pieces the chariot and him who rides therein. With you I will break in pieces man and woman. With you I will break in pieces the old man and the youth. With you I will break in pieces the young man and the virgin. See also: 2 Chronicles 36:17Isaiah 13:181 Samuel 15:3With you I will break in pieces the shepherd and his flock. With you I will break in pieces the farmer and his yoke. With you I will break in pieces governors and deputies. See also: Jeremiah 51:57“I will give to Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight,” says the LORD. See also: Jeremiah 50:15Isaiah 63:1-4Revelation 18:24“Behold, I am against you, destroying mountain,” says the LORD, “which destroys all the earth. I will stretch out my hand on you, roll you down from the rocks, and will make you a burned mountain. See also: Revelation 8:8Zechariah 4:7Jeremiah 50:31They won’t take a cornerstone from you, nor a stone for foundations; but you will be desolate forever,” says the LORD. See also: Isaiah 13:19-22Jeremiah 50:12-13Jeremiah 51:43“Set up a standard in the land! Blow the trumpet among the nations! Prepare the nations against her! Call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz! Appoint a marshal against her! Cause the horses to come up as the swarming locusts! See also: Genesis 10:31 Chronicles 1:6Genesis 8:4Prepare against her the nations, the kings of the Medes, its governors, and all its deputies, and all the land of their dominion! See also: Jeremiah 51:11Jeremiah 25:25Jeremiah 51:27The land trembles and is in pain; for the purposes of the LORD against Babylon stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant. See also: Jeremiah 51:11-12Jeremiah 51:43Jeremiah 8:16The mighty men of Babylon have stopped fighting, they remain in their strongholds. Their might has failed. They have become as women. Her dwelling places are set on fire. Her bars are broken. See also: Nahum 3:13Jeremiah 50:36-37Isaiah 19:16One runner will run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every quarter. See also: 2 Chronicles 30:62 Samuel 18:19-31Jeremiah 50:43So the passages are seized. They have burned the reeds with fire. The men of war are frightened.” See also: Isaiah 44:27Jeremiah 50:37-38Jeremiah 51:30For the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel says: “The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden. Yet a little while, and the time of harvest comes for her.” See also: Isaiah 21:10Hosea 6:11Joel 3:13“Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me. He has crushed me. He has made me an empty vessel. He has, like a monster, swallowed me up. He has filled his mouth with my delicacies. He has cast me out. See also: Jeremiah 50:17Jeremiah 51:44Matthew 23:13May the violence done to me and to my flesh be on Babylon!” the inhabitant of Zion will say; and, “May my blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea!” will Jerusalem say. See also: Revelation 18:20Jeremiah 50:29Psalms 9:12Therefore the LORD says: “Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry. See also: Romans 12:19Jeremiah 50:38Psalms 140:12Babylon will become heaps, a dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant. See also: Revelation 18:2Jeremiah 25:9Jeremiah 18:16They will roar together like young lions. They will growl as lions’ cubs. See also: Jeremiah 2:15Isaiah 35:9Zechariah 11:3When they are inflamed, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunk, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up,” says the LORD. See also: Jeremiah 51:57Jeremiah 25:27Nahum 1:10“I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats. See also: Jeremiah 50:27Ezekiel 39:18Psalms 44:22“How Sheshach is taken! How the praise of the whole earth is seized! How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations! See also: Jeremiah 25:26Isaiah 13:19Jeremiah 49:25The sea has come up on Babylon. She is covered with the multitude of its waves. See also: Isaiah 8:7-8Daniel 9:26Psalms 42:7Her cities have become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land in which no man dwells. No son of man passes by it. See also: Jeremiah 2:6Isaiah 13:20Jeremiah 51:29I will execute judgment on Bel in Babylon, and I will bring out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up. The nations will not flow any more to him. Yes, the wall of Babylon will fall. See also: Jeremiah 51:34Jeremiah 51:58Isaiah 2:2“My people, go away from the middle of her, and each of you save yourselves from the LORD’s fierce anger. See also: Jeremiah 51:6Revelation 18:4Isaiah 48:20Don’t let your heart faint. Don’t fear for the news that will be heard in the land. For news will come one year, and after that in another year news will come, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler. See also: Isaiah 19:22 Kings 19:7Isaiah 21:2-3Therefore behold, the days come that I will execute judgment on the engraved images of Babylon; and her whole land will be confounded. All her slain will fall in the middle of her. See also: Jeremiah 50:2Isaiah 46:1-2Jeremiah 51:52Then the heavens and the earth, and all that is therein, will sing for joy over Babylon; for the destroyers will come to her from the north,” says the LORD. See also: Isaiah 44:23Revelation 18:20Jeremiah 50:3“As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall, so the slain of all the land will fall at Babylon. See also: Jeremiah 50:29Jeremiah 51:24Psalms 137:8-9You who have escaped the sword, go! Don’t stand still! Remember the LORD from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.” See also: Jeremiah 44:28Psalms 122:6Jeremiah 51:45“We are confounded because we have heard reproach. Confusion has covered our faces, for strangers have come into the sanctuaries of the LORD’s house.” See also: Lamentations 1:10Psalms 79:4Psalms 74:3-7“Therefore behold, the days come,” says the LORD, “that I will execute judgment on her engraved images; and through all her land the wounded will groan. See also: Jeremiah 51:47Jeremiah 50:38Daniel 5:30-31Though Babylon should mount up to the sky, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet destroyers will come to her from me,” says the LORD. See also: Jeremiah 49:16Genesis 11:4Jeremiah 51:25“The sound of a cry comes from Babylon, and of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans! See also: Jeremiah 50:22Jeremiah 50:46Jeremiah 48:3-5For the LORD lays Babylon waste, and destroys out of her the great voice! Their waves roar like many waters. The noise of their voice is uttered. See also: Jeremiah 25:10Isaiah 24:8-11Isaiah 47:5For the destroyer has come on her, even on Babylon. Her mighty men are taken. Their bows are broken in pieces, for the LORD is a God of retribution. He will surely repay. See also: Jeremiah 51:6Habakkuk 2:8Psalms 46:9I will make her princes, her wise men, her governors, her deputies, and her mighty men drunk. They will sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up,” says the King, whose name is the LORD of Armies. See also: Jeremiah 46:18Jeremiah 25:27Jeremiah 48:15The LORD of Armies says: “The wide walls of Babylon will be utterly overthrown. Her high gates will be burned with fire. The peoples will labor for vanity, and the nations for the fire; and they will be weary.” See also: Habakkuk 2:13Jeremiah 51:64Jeremiah 51:44The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. Now Seraiah was chief quartermaster. See also: Jeremiah 36:4Jeremiah 32:12Jeremiah 28:1Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come on Babylon, even all these words that are written concerning Babylon. See also: Isaiah 30:8Jeremiah 30:2-3Habakkuk 2:2-3Jeremiah said to Seraiah, “When you come to Babylon, then see that you read all these words, See also: Mark 13:1Jeremiah 29:1-21 Thessalonians 5:27and say, ‘LORD, you have spoken concerning this place, to cut it off, that no one will dwell in it, neither man nor animal, but that it will be desolate forever.’ See also: Jeremiah 50:3Jeremiah 50:13Ezekiel 35:9It will be, when you have finished reading this book, that you shall bind a stone to it, and cast it into the middle of the Euphrates. See also: Revelation 18:21Jeremiah 19:10-11Then you shall say, ‘Thus will Babylon sink, and will not rise again because of the evil that I will bring on her; and they will be weary.’” Thus far are the words of Jeremiah. See also: Jeremiah 51:58Job 31:40Revelation 18:21
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Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Jeremiah 51:1
Ver. 1. Thereof. Heb. leb kamai, "of the heart, rising up against me." H. --- Many take Leb-kamai to be the enigmatical name of the Chaldees, by a secret combination of letters, (Kimchi.
Grot.) as if they were not clearly designated in the sequel. C. --- The prophet expresses more pointedly what he had declared in the preceding chapter. W.
↑ 1Jeremiah 51:2
Ver. 2. Fan her. After the corn was trodden out, it was heaved into the wind.
This custom would insinuate the distress and captivity of the Chaldees. Sept.
"I will send...scoffers, and they shall treat her with scorn, kathubriousin. H. ---
They have read (C.) zedim for zarim.
↑ 2Jeremiah 51:3
Ver. 3. Mail. There will be little or no resistance made. C. l. 3. H. --- The Persians denounce destruction to all taken in arms; or, according to Sept. and Syr. they exhort each other to fight. C.
--- "Let him," &c. H. --- Heb. of the Masorets, "you who bend...spare not." C. ---
Prot. "against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow," &c. H. --- Heb. is printed ne tendat tendat tendans. The second word is properly omitted in some MSS. Thus (1 Chron. xxiv. 6.) we read taken taken, achuz having been put erroneously for achad, one. Kennicott.
↑ 3Jeremiah 51:5
Ver. 5. Forsaken, as a widow, viduatus. H. --- God still considers the nation as his spouse. ---
Their land. That of the Chaldees, (C.) or of the Jews. Theodoret. --- Sin, or punishment.
↑ 5Jeremiah 51:6
Ver. 6. Silent. Jews proclaim that Babylon is justly punished, (C.) lest you partake in her crimes.
Apoc. xviii. 4. Prot. "be not cut off in her," &c. H.
↑ 6Jeremiah 51:7
Ver. 7. Cup. She has exercised the vengeance of the Lord on Juda, Egypt, &c.
↑ 7Jeremiah 51:8
Ver. 8. Suddenly. She has not lost many battles; but is fallen at once from being the greatest city of the East.
↑ 8Jeremiah 51:9
Ver. 9. We. The guardian angels, or Jews reply. Miracles are lost on her. ---
Heavens. Her crimes call for punishment. Gen. xviii. 21. and Jon. i. 2.
↑ 9Jeremiah 51:10
Ver. 10. Justices. We had not injured the Chaldees, though we had offended God.
↑ 10Jeremiah 51:11
Ver. 11. Sharpen. He addresses ironically the citizens of Babylon. --- Medes.
Thus the subjects of the Persian monarchs are commonly styled. C.
↑ 11Jeremiah 51:12
Ver. 12. Standard. Call together thy subjects and allies. H. --- This must be explained of Babylon. M. --- Yet all will be in vain. v. 11. H. --- Ambushes. Herein the valour and genius of heroes was most displayed. Jos. viii. 2. Homer.
↑ 12Jeremiah 51:13
Ver. 13. Waters. Not far from the Tigris, and divided into two parts by the Euphrates. C. ---
Entire, being cut up by the roots, pedalis, (Lyran.) or according to the measure of thy crimes.
Delrio. C. --- Sept. "thy end is truly come into thy bowels." H.
↑ 13Jeremiah 51:14
Ver. 14. Himself. Sept. "his hand" lifted up, or by his power. --- Locusts. Their ravages were equally dreaded. Joel ii. 4. Judg. vi. 5.
↑ 14Jeremiah 51:16
Ver. 16. Rain. Thunder and lightning are usually followed by showers. C.
↑ 16Jeremiah 51:17
Ver. 17. Every man, &c. That is, every maker of idols, however he boasts of his knowledge and skill, does but shew himself a fool in pretending to make a god.
Ch. Wisd. xiv. 18. --- By his, or
"by default of knowledge;" ( a scientia. H.) as the Heb. may also mean. The Babylonians were so confounded, they knew not what to do. C. --- Prot. "Every man is brutish by his knowledge."
Marg. or "is more brutish than to know." C. x. 14. H.
↑ 17Jeremiah 51:20
Ver. 20. Thou, Cyrus, (Grot.) or more commonly the Chaldees are understood.
↑ 20Jeremiah 51:25
Ver. 25. Mountain. So Babylon is styled in derision. See C. xxi. 13. Is. i. 10. and xx. 6. and xxii. 1. The city stood on a plain. Some think that its palace and walls are designated. --- Burnt; unfruitful. This happened long after Cyrus, though it then ceased to be the capital, and became only a shadow of its former greatness.
↑ 25Jeremiah 51:26
Ver. 26. Corner. No king or conqueror shall spring thence. Alexander thought of making it the seat of his empire, but was prevented by death. Strabo xv.
↑ 26Jeremiah 51:27
Ver. 27. Prepare. Lit. "sanctify." H. --- Call together all nations to fight against Babylon. W. ---
Many religious ceremonies were used. --- Ararat, where the ark rested, (Gen.
viii. 4.) near the Araxes, (S. Jer. in Is. xxxvii.) or in the Gordyean mountains, in Armenia, where the Menni dwelt.
--- Ascenez, or Ascantes, (C.) near the Tanais. Pliny vi. 7. --- Taphsar, "the prince." Nah. iii. 17.
Pagn. "Warriors." Chal. "Machines" Sept. --- Caterpillar, or "locust," ( bruchum.
H.) which resembles more a body of cavalry. C. --- Sept. "Push forward the cavalry against her, as a multitude of locusts." H.
↑ 27Jeremiah 51:28
Ver. 28. Prepare; "sanctify." H. --- Media. Cyrus. v. 11. --- Captains: generals. C.
--- Rulers.
Lit. "magistrates." H. --- Heb. Seganim, a title used once by Isaias, and frequently by those who wrote after the Assyrians (C.) commenced their invasion. H.
↑ 28Jeremiah 51:30
Ver. 30. Bars, fastening the gates. C. --- Those who entered by the channel of the river, would seize the gates to let their companions enter. H.
↑ 30Jeremiah 51:31
Ver. 31. King, feasting in his palace, (Herod. i. 191.) or at Borsippe. Berosus. He sent to make inquiries, (C.) or his subjects hastened to convey the doleful tidings, and thus met each other. H.
↑ 31Jeremiah 51:32
Ver. 32. Fords. Thus the enemy entered. --- Marches. Heb. "sedges," which grew to the size of trees, and were burnt when the waters of the river and lakes were drained. Herodotus (i. 185.
178.) specifies a lake four hundred and twenty stadia square, and says the ditches round the city were full of water.
↑ 32Jeremiah 51:33
Ver. 33. Threshing, performed by oxen treading, and by rollers, &c. Judg. viii.
16. and 2 K. xii.
31. --- Little; about fifty-six years.
↑ 33Jeremiah 51:34
Ver. 34. Dragon, or huge fish, which swallows without chewing. Sion is here venting her complaint. Ps. cxxxvi. 8. C. --- She shews that Babylon is justly punished for her cruelty towards God's people. W.
↑ 34Jeremiah 51:36
Ver. 36. Spring; commerce, the source of her riches; or rather the waters shall be brought out of their usual channels. For many ages (C.) the Euphrates has been lost in sands, and reaches not the Persian Gulph. Pliny vii. 27. Cellar. iii.
16.
↑ 36Jeremiah 51:37
Ver. 37. Dragons. This has been the case for above sixteen centuries. C. l. 31.
Is. xiii. 21.
↑ 37Jeremiah 51:38
Ver. 38. Roar. They shall retain their haughty air and threaten others, when they themselves shall fall (C.) in the midst of their feasting. Dan. v. 30. Xen. vii.
↑ 38Jeremiah 51:41
Ver. 41. Search, the city which worshipped the moon, (C. xxv. 26.) Bel, (C. l. 2.)
&c.
↑ 41Jeremiah 51:42
Ver. 42. Sea: numerous armies of Cyrus, or the waters of the Euphrates let loose. C. --- In the days of Alexander, many tombs of the kings were inundated.
Strabo xv.
↑ 42Jeremiah 51:44
Ver. 44. Down. His priests pretended that he eat, (Dan. xiv. 11.) and a woman of their choice slept in the most retired part of the temple. Herod. i. 181. --- The prophet derides this notion.
The idol, or rather his votaries, (H.) shall be forced to let go the Israelites. C. ---
Fall, by means of Cyrus and of Darius. C. l. 3. H.
↑ 44Jeremiah 51:46
Ver. 46. Faint. You may apprehend that your miseries will increase in the midst of such confusion; but no, Baltassar, the last of your oppressor's race, shall be assassinated by Neriglissor, who will be succeeded by Laborosoarchod and Nabonides. This last shall yield to Cyrus, who well grant you liberty. Baltassar reigned two years, Neriglissor four, his ill-tempered infant son nine months, when his followers murdered him, and gave the crown to a Babylonian called Nabonides, who kept it seventeen years, till Cyrus took him prisoner. This we learn from Berosus, quoted by Josephus, c. Ap. i. On the other hand Daniel makes Darius, the Mede, succeed Baltassar, and after him Cyrus reigned. To these changes and continual alarms the prophet alludes.
↑ 46Jeremiah 51:47
Ver. 47. Idols; Bel, &c. v. 41. --- Slain. Heb. "dancers." The people were feasting.
C. --- It means also "slain," (Prot.) or "soldiers."
↑ 47Jeremiah 51:48
Ver. 48. Praise, for the just punishment. H. --- The crimes were public. C.
↑ 48Jeremiah 51:50
Ver. 50. Mind. Offer sacrifices of thanks on Sion, (H.) both Jews and other nations. C.
↑ 50Jeremiah 51:51
Ver. 51. We. The Jews answer: we are ashamed when we think of these places.
M.
↑ 51Jeremiah 51:53
Ver. 53. High. Her fortifications and ditches will prove fruitless. C. xlviii. 7. 18.
↑ 53Jeremiah 51:55
Ver. 55. Great voice, or boasting and songs of joy, usual at public meetings. ---
Noise. They groan under affliction.
↑ 55Jeremiah 51:57
Ver. 57. Drunk, with the wine of fury. v. 39. C. xxv. 26.
↑ 57Jeremiah 51:58
Ver. 58. Broad wall. The pagan historians agree not in the dimensions, but allow it was excessively broad and lofty. C. --- Six chariots might go abreast. It was 360 stadia long, (Ctesias); or 480 (Herod. i. 178.) that is above 23 leagues, allowing 2,500 paces for each. This author says the breadth was fifty cubits of the king, three inches larger than the common one, or about twenty-one inches. Pliny (vi. 26.) improperly applies this to Roman feet, and says the walls were two hundred feet high; while Herodotus assigns so many cubits. C. ---
There were three different walls. Curt. v. --- Cyrus demolished the outer one.
Beros. --- What remained, (C.) with the hundred brazen gates, Darius treated in like manner. Herod. i. 179. and iii. 159. --- Thus was the prediction fulfilled, and the works of so many captive nations brought to nothing. It is asserted that 200,000 (C.) daily finished a stadium, (Curt. v.) or 125 paces. C.
↑ 58Jeremiah 51:59
Ver. 59. With. Heb. also, (C.) "on behalf of." Prot. marg. H. --- It is no where else asserted that Sedecias went in person, and Sept. Chal. &c. explain it in this manner. Baruch accompanied his brother Sararias, and probably took the letter. Bar. i. 2. Saraias went to petition for the sacred vessels. --- Prophecy, or of the embassy to speak (C.) in the king's name. Heb. menucha, was a caution of Benjamin. It means, "rest;" whence some have inferred that he was chamberlain, (Cant. iii. 8.) or a favourite. Most translate, "chief of the presents," Sept. and Chal. as if they they had read mincha, which he carried as a tribute to Babylon. Jeremias gave him charge of the parcel, perhaps before Baruch had determined to go.
↑ 59Jeremiah 51:64
Ver. 64. Sink. The angel did the like; (Apoc. xviii. 21. C.) and the Phoceans, leaving their country, swore that they would return no more till a piece of red hot iron, which they threw into the sea, should swim. Herod. i. 165. --- Thus,
&c. was added by the compiler. Sept. omit the sentence, as what relates to Babylon is place C. xxviii. in their copies. C. --- Yet Grabe puts it in a different character. H. --- Jeremias wrote a great deal, after the 4th year of Sedecias, v.
59. C.
--- He here finished his predictions against Babylon. W. --- This does not mean that he did not write the next chapter, (M.) as Cappel allows, (Houbig.) though this may still be doubted. H.
↑ 64License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses