Part 533 (2/2)

3:31. There is none that is able to know her ways, nor that can search out her paths:

3:32. But he that knoweth all things, knoweth her, and hath found her out with his understanding: he that prepared the earth for evermore, and filled it with cattle and fourfooted beasts:

3:33. He that sendeth forth the light, and it goeth: and hath called it, and it obeyeth him with trembling.

3:34. And the stars have given light in their watches, and rejoiced:

3:35. They were called, and they said: Here we are: and with cheerfulness they have s.h.i.+ned forth to him that made them.

3:36. This is our G.o.d, and there shall no other be accounted of in comparison of him.

3:37. He found out all the way of knowledge, and gave it to Jacob his servant, and to Israel his beloved.

3:38. Afterwards he was seen upon earth, and conversed with men.

Was seen upon earth, etc... viz., by the mystery of the incarnation, by means of which the son of G.o.d came visibly amongst us, and conversed with men. The prophets often speak of things to come as if they were past, to express the certainty of the event of the things foretold.

Baruch Chapter 4

The prophet exhorts to the keeping of the law of wisdom, and encourages the people to be patient, and to hope for their deliverance.

4:1. This is the book of the commandments of G.o.d, and the law, that is for ever: all they that keep it, shall come to life: but they that have forsaken it, to death.

4:2. Return, O Jacob, and take hold of it, walk in the way by its brightness, in the presence of the light thereof.

4:3. Give not thy honour to another, nor thy dignity to a strange nation.

4:4. We are happy, O Israel: because the things that are pleasing to G.o.d, are made known to us.

4:5. Be of good comfort, O people of G.o.d, the memorial of Israel:

4:6. You have been sold to the Gentiles, not for your destruction: but because you provoked G.o.d to wrath, you are delivered to your adversaries.

4:7. For you have provoked him who made you, the eternal G.o.d, offering sacrifice to devils, and not to G.o.d.

4:8. For you have forgotten G.o.d, who brought you up, and you have grieved Jerusalem that nursed you.

4:9. For she saw the wrath of G.o.d coming upon you, and she said: Give ear, all you that dwell near Sion, for G.o.d hath brought upon me great mourning:

4:10. For I have seen the captivity of my people, of my sons, and my daughters, which the Eternal hath brought upon them.

4:11. For I nourished them with joy: but I sent them away with weeping and mourning.

4:12. Let no man rejoice over me, a widow, and desolate: I am forsaken of many for the sins of my children, because they departed from the law of G.o.d.

4:13. And they have not known his justices, nor walked by the ways of G.o.d's commandments, neither have they entered by the paths of his truth and justice.

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