“The leaders of the nations are the wise of this age who ruled over human beings who behaved like beasts.”
Olympiodorus of Alexandria, 6th c. — FRAGMENTS ON BARUCH 3:16
Original
17They that had their pastime with the fowls of the air, and they that hoarded up silver and gold, wherein men trust, and made no end of their getting?
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In context
15Who hath found out her place? or who hath come into her treasures?
16Where are the princes of the heathen become, and such as ruled the beasts upon the earth;
— Baruch 3:17 —
18For they that wrought in silver, and were so careful, and whose works are unsearchable,
19They are vanished and gone down to the grave, and others are come up in their steads.