Baruch 3:9
“It seems good to me to attempt to explain why the prescriptions, judgments and commandments of the law have been given. The text says, "In order to put them to the test [to see] if they would listen to the voice of the Lord and keep his commandments." In fact, what was there about the commandments that was so good and…”
9Hear, Israel, the commandments of life: give ear to understand wisdom.
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7And for this cause thou hast put thy fear in our hearts, to the intent that we should call upon thy name, and praise thee in our captivity: for we have called to mind all the iniquity of our forefathers, that sinned before thee.
8Behold, we are yet this day in our captivity, where thou hast scattered us, for a reproach and a curse, and to be subject to payments, according to all the iniquities of our fathers, which departed from the Lord our God.
— Baruch 3:9 —
10How happeneth it Israel, that thou art in thine enemies’ land, that thou art waxen old in a strange country, that thou art defiled with the dead,
11That thou art counted with them that go down into the grave?