2 This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said of you, O Baruch:
It was no sent one or angel, but he himself who was their saviour: in his love and in his pity he took up their cause, and he took them in his arms, caring for them all through the years.
But go, say to his disciples and to Peter, He goes before you into Galilee: there you will see him, as he said to you.
But God who gives comfort to the poor in spirit gave us comfort by the coming of Titus;
For having been put to the test himself, he is able to give help to others when they are tested.
Worthy.Bible » Commentaries » Matthew Henry Commentary » Commentary on Jeremiah 45
Commentary on Jeremiah 45 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 45
The prophecy we have in this chapter concerns Baruch only, yet is intended for the support and encouragement of all the Lord's people that serve him faithfully and keep closely to him in difficult trying times. It is placed here after the story of the destruction of Jerusalem and the dispersion of the Jews, but was delivered long before, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, as was the prophecy in the next chapter, and probably those that follow. We here find,
Though Baruch was only Jeremiah's scribe, yet this notice is taken of his frights, and this provision made for his comfort; for God despises not any of his servants, but graciously concerns himself for the meanest and weakest, for Baruch the scribe as well as for Jeremiah the prophet.
Jer 45:1-5
How Baruch was employed in writing Jeremiah's prophecies, and reading them, we had an account ch. 36, and how he was threatened for it by the king, warrants being out for him and he forced to abscond, and how narrowly he escaped under a divine protection, to which story this chapter should have been subjoined, but that, having reference to a private person, it is here thrown into the latter end of the book, as St. Paul's epistle to Philemon is put after his other epistles. Observe,