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The Book of Baruch 4:12 Commentary

1 historical voice

How the Church has read Baruch 4:12 across two millennia — Matthew Henry, John Calvin, Augustine of Hippo, John Chrysostom and more, gathered verse by verse from the public domain.

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Nemo gaudeat super me viduam et desolatam : a multis derelicta sum propter peccata filiorum meorum, quia declinaverunt a lege Dei.

Voices across the centuries

Church Fathers 1

Olympiodorus of Alexandria · 600 Excerpts (Historical Christian Faith …
FRAGMENTS ON BARUCH 4:12
He calls her a widow because she was without the divine care, alone and desolate—clearly she who is now alone. Or, furthermore, the only one to have had the divine temple. Or the only one to have been encircled by the Assyrians but not conquered, because in fact “the Lord tried me harshly but did not give me over to death.” But above all it is the synagogue that deserves the name widow, which, having acted arrogantly toward Christ her spouse, has been abandoned.
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