“... Nevertheless, Bar 3:37[38] is by far the most commonly cited verse of Baruch by patristic and medieval Christian exegetes, including Ambrose, Augustine, Cyprian, Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory of Nazianzen, Gregory of Nyssa, Hilary of Poitiers, Hippolytus, John Cassian, John Chrysostom, John of Damascus, Lactantius, Rufinus, and Theodoret, as well as Thomas Aquinas and John of the Cross.37 Most of these authors quote the full passage Bar 3:36–38 (beginning with “This is our God”) to make a point about the relationship between the Father and the Son, usually that the Son is ­co-­eternal with and equal to the Father. The quotation is often attributed to Jeremiah rather than Baruch, presumably because of Jeremiah’s greater authority. Augustine quotes Bar 3:36–38 in a chapter of City of God about Jeremiah, although he acknowl- edges that “some attribute this testimony not to Jeremiah, but to his secretary, who was called Baruch; but it is more commonly attributed to Jeremiah.”38 ...”