Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth, and I wrote [them] with ink in the book.
He pronounced – He used to say aloud, he dictated. Baruchs office was merely mechanical. He contributed nothing but hand, pen, and ink.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
This could not but add to the princes fear and amazement. They must needs conceive that the thing was done from God, for without a special influence of God it had been a thing impossible that Jeremiah should have called to mind all that he had spoken at several times in so many years; and proceeding from the God of truth, they must needs fear that they would have their certain and just accomplishment in their season.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
18. his mouthBaruch repliesit was by the oral dictation of the prophet; Jer36:2 accords with this view, rather than with the notion thatJeremiah repeated his prophecies from manuscripts.
inkhis specificationof the “ink” implies: I added nothing save the hand, pen,and ink.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Then Baruch answered them,…. At once, without any hesitation, plainly and fully:
he pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth; that is, the Prophet Jeremiah delivered by word of mouth, not the substance only of this roll, but the express words of it, and everyone of them, and that clearly and distinctly, without any hesitation, or premeditation; by which it is plain it was by the Spirit of the Lord he did it; neither matter nor words were Baruch’s, but were exactly as they were delivered:
and I wrote [them] with ink in the book; as they saw with their eyes, and which was the manner of writing with the Jews so early; Baruch had no further concern in this matter than to provide pen, ink, and parchment, and to make use of them as he did, just as the prophet dictated and directed him.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
He simply answered, that Jeremiah had pronounced these words to him. They might hence have concluded, that Jeremiah had no roll laid before him, and that he had been not long meditating on what he communicated to his scribe Baruch. And though he seems to have said no more than what might satisfy the princes, yet the purport of the whole is, that Jeremiah did not produce the roll from a recess or his desk, but promptly gave utterance to what God’s Spirit suggested to him. Their astonishment, then, must have increased, when the king’s counsellors knew that these commands did not proceed from a mortal man, but that, on the contrary, God spoke them by the mouth of Jeremiah, and by the hand of Baruch. It follows, —
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
Jer 36:18 Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth, and I wrote [them] with ink in the book.
Ver. 18. And Baruch answered them. ] Answerably a to the question they asked him. Jer 36:17 Dignum patella operculum.
And I wrote them with ink in the book.
a Hos fere simili responso eludere videtur sanctus Dei homo. – Zeged.
He: Jer 36:2, Jer 36:4, Jer 43:2, Jer 43:3, Pro 26:4, Pro 26:5
with ink: Baddeyo is rendered by some, after him; but deyo (in Chaldee and Syriac deyootha and in Welsh du) certainly denotes ink; whence are derived the Arabic dawat and deweet and Persian deeveet an ink-holder; the Syriac dayowo, and Persian div the devil. So the Alexandrian copy of the LXX has , and Vulgate atramento “with ink.” Perhaps the princes supposed that Baruch had written this roll from memory; and that it was rather to be considered as his composition, than the substance of Jeremiah’s prophecies; and they might ask this apparently frivolous question in order to allay the alarms excited by considering it as the word of God. But Baruch, with great simplicity, so answered their question, as to shew that he only acted as Jeremiah’s amanuensis, and wrote verbatim what he had dictated.
Reciprocal: Jer 36:32 – who
Jer 36:18. The explanation was a simple one and would not require the work of the memory. Baruch was not an inspired man but had served Jeremiah as his secretary and was accustomed to “taking dictation.”
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary