2 Baruch

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New TESTAMENT. Matt. xxiv. 27: For as the light- ning . . . so shall be the coming of the Son of man. Luke xx. 36: Equal unto the angels. Luke xxi. 28 (1 Pet. iv. 7): Your redemption draweth nigh. Acts xv. 10 (where the law is spoken of as a ‘yoke’; cp. Gal. v. 1). Rom. ii. 14, 15. Rom. viii. 18 (2 Cor. iv. 17): The sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory, &c. 1 Cor. iv. 5 (Heb. iv. 13). 2 Cor. iii. 18: Reflecting as in a mirror the glory of the Lord are transformed into the same image from glory to glory. Il BARUCH PARALLELS IN OUR APOCALYPSE. li. g: Now that lightning shone exceedingly so as to illu- minate the whole earth. (The lightning here symbolizes the Messiah.) li. ro. | xxiii, 7: | drawn nigh. xli. 3: The yoke of Thy law. My redemption has | — xlviii. 40 (see note). | xv. 8: This world is tothem... a labour with much trouble. .. and that .. . which is to come, a crown with great glory. Ixxxiii. 3. li. ro: And they shall be made like unto the angels, . . . and they shall be changed . . . from beauty into loveliness, and from light into PROBABLE SOURCE OF ROTH. A coincidence (?). 1 Enoch civ. 4, 6. 1 Enoch li. 2. A current expression. A Jewish commonplace. A Jewish commonplace. 1 Enoch ix. 5. 2 Cor. iv. 17 (Rom. viii. 18). xv. 8. 1 Tim. i. 2: Mercy and peace. 2 Pet. iii. 9. XXi. 20. the splendour of glory. Ixxviii_ 2: Mercy and peace. A Jewish commonplace A coincidence. A coincidence. 2 Pet. iii. 13 (Matt. xix. 28; Rev. xxxii. 6: Renew His creation. Isa. Ixv. 17. xxi. 1): New heavens and a new earth. Rey. xx. 12: The books were xxiv. 1: The books shall be Dan. vii. το. opened. opened. In the following passages our text is dependent on the New Testament, or on some lost common source :— New TESTAMENT. Matt. xvi. 26: For what shall a man be profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul ? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? Luke i. 43: Blessed art thou among women, &c. 1 Cor. xv. 19: If in this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. 1 Cor. xv. 35: How are the dead raised? and with what manner of body do they come? James i. 2: Count it all joy when ye fall into manifold temptations. Rey. iv. 6: In the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, four living creatures. PARALLELS IN OUR APOCALYPSE. li. 15: For what then have men lost their life and for what have those who were on the earth exchanged their soul ? liv. το: Blessed be my mother among those that bear, &c. (probably interpolated). xxi. 13: For if there were this life only . . . nothing could be more bitter than this. xlix. 2: In what shape will those live who live in Thy day? lii. 6: Rejoice ye in the suffering which ye now suffer. li. 11: The living creatures that are beneath the throne. § 12. BIBLIOGRAPHY. For a full bibliography see Charles’ Apocalypse of Baruch with short criticisms of the various works, and Schiirer, 77 σε. (a2) THE GREEK VERSION. Fragments published in Grenfell and Hunt’s Oxyrhynchus Papyri, iii. 3-7, 1903 ; reprinted in this volume, p. 487 sqq. THE SYRIAC VERSION. The entire version in Ceriani’s JZonumenta sacra et profana, V. ii, 113-80, from one MS. c; chapters Ixxviii-lxxxvi. 1-2, the Epistle of Baruch, in the London and Paris Polyglots; Lagarde’s Libri Ved. Test. Syriace, 88-93, 1861, from one MS. ; Charles, Apocalypse of Baruch, 125-67, from ten MSS. (4) MODERN TRANSLATIONS. Into Latin by Ceriani, of. c##., 1. ii. 73-98, 1866 ; into English by Charles, of. cé¢. ; in German by Ryssel in Kautzsch’s Afok. und Pseud. ii. 413-46. ᾽ (c) CRITICAL INQUIRIES. Langen, De Afocalypsi Baruch, 1867; Hilgenfeld, Messias Judaeorum, 63-4, 1869 ; Kneucker, Das Buch Baruch, 190-6, 1879; Rosenthal, Vier apocryphische Biicher, 72-103, 1885; Kabisch, ‘ Die Quellen der Apocalypse Baruchs,’ Jahrdiicher f. protest. Theol., 66-107, 1891; De Faye, Les Apocalypses juives, 25-8, 76-103, 192-204, 1892; Ryle, Smith's Dict. of the Bible, i. 361-2; Ginzberg in the Jewish Encyclopaedia, ii. 554-6, 1902, a very valuable article. (4) Edition of the book. Charles, Apocalypse of Baruch, 1896. 480 SS