457 In 28-30 the Greek, mainly followed above in accordance with the metre, is far shorter than the Hebrew text. 458 The reasons given by Giesebrecht and Duhm _in loco_, by Skinner, p. 346, and (more fancifully) by Erbt, p. 86, for impugning the date given in xlv. 1, and relegating the Oracle to the close of Jeremiah’s life in exile as his last words to Baruch, have been answered in great detail, and to my mind conclusively, by Cornill, who points out how much more suited the Oracle is to conditions in 605 than to those of Baruch and Jeremiah after 586. 459 Cornill: _the words of Jeremiah in a book_. 460 Hebrew adds _saying_. 461 Hebrew adds _the God of Israel_. 462 So Greek. 463 Superfluous after, not to say inconsistent with, verse 2; probably editorial. _ 464 I have to_ or _am about to_. The Hebrew addition to this couplet, _and that is the whole earth_, is probably a gloss; it is not found in all Greek versions. 465 His brother Seraiah was a high officer of the king, ch. li. 59; see also Josephus X. “Antt.,” ix. 1. 466 Here and xxi. 9, xxxviii. 2, xxxix. 18. 467 ix. 3, 7 (_How else can I do?_), xii. 9, 11, see p. 211. 468 See p. 167. 469 2 Kings xxiii. 31, xxiv. 17; see above, p. 164. 470 The exact transliteration of the Hebrew is _Ṣidḳiyahu_. 471 Ezek. xvi. 59, xvii. 11-21; especially 15-19. 472 Ps. xv., _who sweareth to his own hurt and changeth not_. 473 Josephus imputes to him χρεστότης καὶ δικαιοσύνη, X. “Antt.” vii. 5. _ 474 No strong rod, no sceptre to rule_, Ezek. xix. 14. 475 Or _ye are far_, etc., Ezek. xi. 15. 476 Jer. xxvii.; in verse 1 for _Jehoiakim_ read _Ṣedekiah_. 477 Jer. li. 59; though some doubt this. 478 Ezek. viii; Jer. xliv. 17-19 and his other references to the worship of the _Queen_ or _Host of Heaven_ may also refer to this. 479 Jer. xliv. 30, _Pharaoh_ of xxxvii. 5, 7, 11, Ezek. xxix. 3; _Apries_, Herodotus ii. 161. 480 Jer. xxxiv. 8-22; cp. Exod. xxi. 1-6, Deut. xv. 12-18. 481 2 Kings xxv. 21. 482 xxix. 29; Skinner, p. 253, doubts this. 483 xxxii. 16-25. 484 See above, pp. 186-188. 485 xvii. 16. 486 So Driver; Amos vii. 1, 4, 7, viii. 1. 487 So Greek. 488 So Greek and other versions. 489 Greek _city_. 490 Jews who may have stirred up Egypt against Babylon. 491 So Greek; Hebrew adds _for an evil_, “a corrupt repetition of the preceding word” (Driver). 492 Hebrew adds _and to their fathers_. 493 xxix. 20, 15, 21-32, see pp. 245-247. 494 ix. 22; x. 20. 495 See above, p. 236. 496 See above, p. 35.