The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms # 102
102. Internal Meaning of Jeremiah, Chapter 36
1-10 The destruction of the Jewish church and nation is foretold, and it is impressed upon them that they should repent. (3)
11-16 They might know it to be true. (3, 15)
17-18 It was foretold by the Lord. (3)
19-24 They rejected it by profaning it; (3)
27-28, 32 The Divine truth will not perish. (11)
29-31 Because they have made themselves obstinate, the destruction of the church and of the kingdom is imminent. (3)
Jeremiah 36:19-24
19
Then the princes said to Baruch, Go, hide, you and Jeremiah; and let no man know where you are.
20
They went in to the king into the court; but they had laid up the scroll in the room of Elishama the scribe; and they told all the words in the ears of the king.
21
So the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll; and he took it out of the room of Elishama the scribe. Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes who stood beside the king.
22
Now the king was sitting in the winter house in the ninth month: and [there was a fire in] the brazier burning before him.
23
It happened, when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, that [the king] cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.
24
They were not afraid, nor tore their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants who heard all these words.
