“... 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, Bar 4:36–5:9, which he attributes to Jeremiah, in the context of a discussion of the eschatological Jerusalem.41 Jerome alludes to the same poem, which he attributes correctly to Baruch, as an example of the power of repentance.42 Ambrose, too, cites Baruch in his work on repentance.43 Clement of Alexandria finds scriptural support in Bar 3:16–19 (alongside Plato!) for a diatribe against the display of wealth.44 Basil the Great quotes Bar 3:3 as testimony to the immutability of God.45 Methodius quotes Baruch (though he attributes the words to Jeremiah) on two points: Bar 3:14–15 on the inac- cessibility of wisdom, and Bar 3:24-­25 on the incomprehensibility of God.46 For Augustine, Baruch provides evidence for the existence of giants before the Flood (Bar 3:26–28).47 He also cites Bar 2:31 three times in support of the doctrine of predestination.48 ...”