Jeremiah 45 Footnotes

Critical commentators have contended that a later editor put this episode in the wrong place, or that he mistakenly assigned the wrong date to the episode. But if the editor’s purposes were the same as Jeremiah’s (or Baruch’s), the reliability of Scripture is not affected. God is the ultimate Author, whether he inspired Jeremiah, Baruch, or a later editor to put this episode here (2Pt 1:21). It is not likely that an editor or compiler would have assigned an incorrect date; if the oracle was delivered in Egypt, he would have mentioned that or omitted the date entirely.