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28. preface to the book of Baruch. *)

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28. preface to the book of Baruch. *)

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Very low is this book, who also is the good Baruch. For it is not credible that St. Jeremiah's servant, who is also called Baruch (to whom this epistle is also dedicated), should not be higher and richer in spirit, neither is this Baruch. [The number of years with the Histories does not coincide with this, that I would have let him be so close to the third and fourth book of Ezra. For the same two books of Ezra we have badly not wanted to translate, because so nothing is in it, that

One cannot find much better in Aesopo or still lesser books, without that in the fourth book to it are vain dreams, as Jerome himself says, and Lyra did not want to interpret; to it in the Greek are not found. Otherwise, they may be interpreted by whoever wants to, but not in this number of books. Baruch we let baptize among this bunch, because he writes so hard against idolatry and reproaches Mosi's law.