Baruch 3:36

Hippolytus of Rome

• Hippolytus of Rome, Against the Heresy of One Noetus

  “Afterward did He show Himself upon earth, and conversed with men.”” — editor's note: Baruch iii. 35–38. [Based on Prov. viii., but so remarkable that Grotius presumptuously declared it an interpolation. It reflects canonical Scripture, but has…

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Cyril of Jerusalem

• Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures Lecture 12

  “Afterwards He was seen on earth, and conversed among men.” — editor's note: Baruch iii. 35–37. The last verse was understood by Cyril, as by many of the Greek and Latin Fathers, to be a prophecy of the Incarnation: but in reality it…

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Ambrose of Milan

• Ambrose of Milan, Exposition of the Christian Faith I.4Book I

  “When our peasant planted figs, he found that whereof the philosopher knew nothing, for God hath chosen the foolish things of this world to confound the strong.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 27. The “peasant” is Jeremiah. See Jer. xxiv., but the prophet is not there spoken of as planting figs. The quotation in § 28 is Baruch iii. 36–38.

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• Ambrose of Milan, Exposition of the Christian Faith II.9Book II

  “After these things He was seen on earth, and conversed with men.”” — editor's note: Baruch iii. 36 ff.

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Theodoret of Cyrus

• Theodoret of Cyrus, Letters Letter 152

  “He hath found out all the way of knowledge and hath given it unto Jacob His servant and to Israel His beloved and afterward did He show Himself upon earth and conversed with men.”” — editor's note: Baruch iii. 35, 36, 37. From the time of Irenæus the book of Baruch, friend and companion of Jeremiah, was commonly quoted as the work of the great prophet.…

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John Cassian

• John Cassian, On the Incarnation of the Lord, Against Nestorius IV.9Book IV

  “Afterwards He was seen upon earth and conversed with men.”” — editor's note: The passage comes not from Jeremiah, but from Baruch (iii. 36–38). It is also quoted as from Jeremiah by Augustine (c. Faustin. xii. c. 43): and in the LXX.…

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Hilary of Poitiers

• Hilary of Poitiers, On the Trinity Book 4

  “Afterward did He shew Himself upon earth and dwelt among men.” — editor's note: Baruch iii. 35–37.

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• Hilary of Poitiers, On the Trinity Book 5

  “Afterward He was seen upon earth, and dwelt among men.” — editor's note: Baruch iii. 35–37.

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Augustine of Hippo

• Augustine of Hippo, The City of God XVIII.33Book XVIII

  “Also in another place he says, “This is my God, and there shall none other be accounted of in comparison of Him; who hath found out all the way of prudence, and hath given it to Jacob His servant, and to Israel His beloved: afterwards He was seen on the earth, and conversed with men.”” — editor's note: Bar. iii. 35–37.

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Cyprian of Carthage

• Cyprian of Carthage, Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews II.7Book II

  “After this He was seen upon earth, and He conversed with men.”” — editor's note: Baruch iii. 35–37.

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• Colossians 2:14

  Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Lord, Against Nestorius IV.9.

• Colossians 2:15

  Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Lord, Against Nestorius IV.9.

• Isaiah 14:14

  Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Lord, Against Nestorius IV.9.

• Isaiah 14:15

  Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Lord, Against Nestorius IV.9.

• Isaiah 52:6

  Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Lord, Against Nestorius IV.9.

• Jeremiah 1:5

  Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Lord, Against Nestorius IV.9.