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Jerusalem Exchanges Mourning for Glory

Chapter 5

1 Take off the garment of your mourning and affliction, O Jerusalem, and put on forever the beauty of the glory from God.⁠ 2 Put on the robe of the righteousness from God. Set on your head a diadem of the glory of the Everlasting.⁠ 3 For God will show your splendor everywhere under heaven.⁠ 4 For your name will be called by God forever “Righteous Peace, Godly Glory”.

God Leads Israel Home

5 Arise, O Jerusalem, and stand upon the height. Look around you toward the east and see your children gathered from the going down of the sun to its rising⁠ at the word of the Holy One, rejoicing that God has remembered them.⁠ 6 For they went from you on foot, being led away by their enemies, but God brings them in to you carried on high with glory, on a royal throne. 7 For God has appointed that every high mountain and the everlasting hills should be made low, and the valleys filled up to make the ground level, that Israel may go safely in the glory of God. 8 Moreover the woods and every sweet smelling tree have shaded Israel by the commandment of God. 9 For God will lead Israel with joy in the light of his glory with the mercy and righteousness that come from him.

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Compare Baruch 5:1 and Ambrose, On Repentance 1.9

Deuterocanon · Early Christian

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Summary

The Christian theologian Ambrose of Milan quotes Baruch as an authentic and authoritative source for theology and teaching about repentance, showing how Christian tradition incorporated Jewish teaching and traditions.

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Baruch 5:1

Deuterocanon
1 Take off the garment of your mourning and affliction, O Jerusalem, and put on forever the beauty of the glory from God. 2 Put on the robe of the righteousness from God. Set on your head a diadem of the glory of the Everlasting. 3 For God will show your splendor everywhere under heaven. 4 For your name will be called by God forever “Righteous Peace, Godly Glory”. 5 Arise, O Jerusalem, and stand upon the height. Look around you toward the east and see your children gathered from the going down of the sun to its rising at the word of the Holy One, rejoicing that God has remembered them.
200–50 BCE (scholarly estimate) Read in Baruch

Ambrose, On Repentance 1.9

Early Christian
Rightly, then, is it said: Who shall entreat for him? It implies that it must be someone like as Moses to offer himself for those who sin, or such as Jeremiah, who, though the Lord said to him, Do not pray for this people, and yet he prayed and obtained their forgiveness. For at the intercession of the prophet, and the entreaty of so great a seer, the Lord was moved and said to Jerusalem, which had meanwhile repented for its sins, and had said: O Almighty Lord God of Israel, the soul in anguish, and the troubled spirit cries to You, hear, Lord, and have mercy. And the Lord bids them lay aside the garments of mourning, and to cease the groanings of repentance, saying: Take off, Jerusalem, the garment of your mourning and affliction, and clothe yourself in beauty, the glory which God has given you forever.
390–395 CE (scholarly estimate) Read in Ambrose, On Repentance 1

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"... Early exegetes were not only interested in Baruch’s “testimony” to the Son of God, however. Irenaeus quotes a long passage from the poem of consolation, Baruch 4:36–5:9, which he attributes to Jeremiah, in the context of a discussion of the eschatological Jerusalem. Jerome alludes to the same poem, which he attributes correctly to Baruch, as an example of the power of repentance. Ambrose, too, cites Baruch in his work on repentance. (citing Baruch 3:1–2 and 5:1) Clement of Alexandria finds scriptural support in Baruch 3:16–19 (alongside Plato!) for a diatribe against the display of wealth. Basil the Great quotes Baruch 3:3 as testimony to the immutability of God. Methodius quotes Baruch (though he attributes the words to Jeremiah) on two points: Baruch 3:14–15 on the inaccessibility of wisdom, and Baruch 3:24-25 on the incomprehensibility of God. For Augustine, Baruch provides evidence for the existence of giants before the Flood (Baruch 3:26–28). He also cites Baruch 2:31 three times in support of the doctrine of predestination ..."
Karina Martin Hogan, “Baruch,” in The Oxford Handbook of the Apocrypha, ed. Gerbern S. Oegema (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021), 123–136.

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