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Baruch

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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.

Texts in conversation

Compare Baruch 5:2 and Wisdom of Solomon 18:24

Deuterocanon

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Summary

Wisdom of Solomon describes the high priest’s clothing as carrying the world on his robe and God’s glory on his head, and Baruch echoes this with a crown inscribed with God’s name. Both turn priestly clothing into cosmic symbols.

Passages

Baruch 5:2

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”.
200–50 BCE (scholarly estimate) Read in Baruch

Wisdom of Solomon 18:24

Deuterocanon
22 And he overcame the anger, not by strength of body, not by force of weapons, but by his word, he subdued the avenger by bringing to remembrance oaths and covenants made with the fathers. 23 For when the dead had already fallen in heaps one upon another, he intervened and stopped the wrath, and cut off its way to the living. 24 For the whole world was pictured on his long robe, and the glories of the fathers were upon the engraving of the four rows of precious stones, and your majesty was upon the diadem on his head. 25 The destroyer yielded to these, and feared them; for it was enough only to test the wrath.
50 BCE – 50 CE (scholarly estimate) Read in the Wisdom of Solomon

References

"... Two Hebrew terms are used for the high priest’s turban (compare Baruch 5:2; Psalms of Solomon 2:21), but neither refers exclusively to high priestly headgear. On the one hand, the high priest daily wore a turban (Exodus 28:4, 37; 29:6; 39:31; Leviticus 8:9; compare 16:4), sometimes described as a fine linen turban (Exodus 28:39; 39:28) ... The golden head ornament was similar to the two gems of the shoulder-pieces of the ephod and the twelve gems and precious stones of the breastpiece in that it bore seal-like engravings (Exodus 28:36; 39:30). But rather than being inscribed with tribal names, the golden head ornament was instead engraved with the inscription “Holy to YHWH”. Later Hellenistic writers, however, described it as being engraved with apparently nothing but the sacred name or tetragrammaton (Wisdom of Solomon 18:24; Josephus, Antiquities 3.138) ..."
Ross E. Winkle, "Clothes Make the (One Like a Son of) Man": Dress Imagery in Revelation 1 as an Indicator of High Priestly StatusRevelation 1 as an Indicator of High Priestly Status (Andrews University, 2012), 214–222.

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