3:37. He found out all the way of knowledge, and gave it to Jacob his servant, and to Israel his beloved. 3:38. Afterwards he was seen upon earth, and conversed with men. Was seen upon earth, etc... viz., by the mystery of the incarnation, by means of which the son of God came visibly amongst us, and conversed with men. The prophets often speak of things to come as if they were past, to express the certainty of the event of the things foretold. Baruch Chapter 4 The prophet exhorts to the keeping of the law of wisdom, and encourages the people to be patient, and to hope for their deliverance. 4:1. This is the book of the commandments of God, and the law, that is for ever: all they that keep it, shall come to life: but they that have forsaken it, to death. 4:2. Return, O Jacob, and take hold of it, walk in the way by its brightness, in the presence of the light thereof. 4:3. Give not thy honour to another, nor thy dignity to a strange nation. 4:4. We are happy, O Israel: because the things that are pleasing to God, are made known to us. 4:5. Be of good comfort, O people of God, the memorial of Israel: 4:6. You have been sold to the Gentiles, not for your destruction: but because you provoked God to wrath, you are delivered to your adversaries. 4:7. For you have provoked him who made you, the eternal God, offering sacrifice to devils, and not to God. 4:8. For you have forgotten God, who brought you up, and you have grieved Jerusalem that nursed you. 4:9. For she saw the wrath of God coming upon you, and she said: Give ear, all you that dwell near Sion, for God hath brought upon me great mourning: 4:10. For I have seen the captivity of my people, of my sons, and my daughters, which the Eternal hath brought upon them. 4:11. For I nourished them with joy: but I sent them away with weeping and mourning. 4:12. Let no man rejoice over me, a widow, and desolate: I am forsaken of many for the sins of my children, because they departed from the law of God. 4:13. And they have not known his justices, nor walked by the ways of God's commandments, neither have they entered by the paths of his truth and justice. 4:14. Let them that dwell about Sion come, and remember the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Eternal hath brought upon them. 4:15. For he hath brought a nation upon them from afar, a wicked nation, and of a strange tongue: 4:16. Who have neither reverenced the ancient, nor pitied children, and have carried away the beloved of the widow, and have left me all alone without children. 4:17. But as for me, what help can I give you? 4:18. But he that hath brought the evils upon you, he will deliver you out of the hands of your enemies. 4:19. Go your way, my children, go your way: for I am left alone. 4:20. I have put off the robe of peace, and have put upon me the sackcloth of supplication, and I will cry to the most High in my days.