Commentary on Lamentations
Apostolic Constitutions
For even now, on the tenth day of the month Gorpiaeus, when they assemble together, they read the Lamentations of Jeremiah, in which it is said, "The Spirit before our face, Christ the Lord, was taken in their destructions," and they read Baruch, in whom it is written, "This is our God; no other shall be esteemed with him. He found out every way of knowledge and showed it to Jacob his son and Israel his beloved. Afterwards he was seen on earth and conversed with people." And when they read them, they lament and bewail—as they themselves suppose—that desolation that happened through Nebuchadnezzar. However, as the truth shows, they unwillingly make a prelude to that lamentation that will overtake them. But after ten days from the ascension, which from the first Lord's day is the fiftieth day, you are to keep a great festival, for on that day, at the third hour, the Lord Jesus sent on us the gift of the Holy Spirit, and we were filled with his energy, and we "spoke with new tongues, as that Spirit did suggest to us"; and we preached both to Jews and Gentiles that he is the Christ of God, who is "determined by him to be the judge of living and dead." …Concerning him Jeremiah also did…
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