VerseOlympiodorus of Alexandria, 6th c. — FRAGMENTS ON BARUCH 4:6 Read all of Baruch 4 →
Baruch 4:6
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“The devil in fact had a written note for our debt, but Christ redeemed us with his own blood.”
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6Ye were sold to the nations, not for your destruction: but because ye moved God to wrath, ye were delivered unto the enemies.
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4O Israel, happy are we: for things that are pleasing to God are made known unto us.
5Be of good cheer, my people, the memorial of Israel.
— Baruch 4:6 —
7For ye provoked him that made you by sacrificing unto devils, and not to God.
8Ye have forgotten the everlasting God, that brought you up; and ye have grieved Jerusalem, that nursed you.