* He.
2,4 43:2,3 Pr 26:4,5
* with ink.
{Baddeyo} is rendered by some, after him; but {deyo} (in
Chaldee and Syriac {deyootha,} and in Welsh {du,}) certainly
denotes ink; whence are derived the Arabic {dawat} and
{deweet,} and Persian {deeveet,} an ink-holder; the Syriac
{dayowo}, and Persian {div,} the devil. So the Alexandrian
copy of the LXX. has [en melani,] and Vulgate {atramento,}
"with ink." Perhaps the princes supposed that Baruch had
written this roll from memory; and that it was rather to be
considered as his composition, than the substance of
Jeremiah's prophecies; and they might ask this apparently
frivolous question in order to allay the alarms excited by
considering it as the word of God. But Baruch, with great
simplicity, so answered their question, as to shew that he
only acted as Jeremiah's amanuensis, and wrote verbatim what
he had dictated.
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