The word that Jeremiah spake unto Baruch when he had written, &c. “This seems to indicate that the exact time of the uttering of this prophecy was between the writing and the publication of the roll. And, perhaps, if Baruch had not received such special assurances of protection, he might not have had resolution enough to have followed the prophet's further directions, and to have read first before all the people, and afterward before the princes, what he had written.” Blaney.
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Jeremiah 45:1
1 The word that Jeremiah the prophet spake unto Baruch the son of Neriah, when he had written these words in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,