of the Chaldean destruction the Lord is, in Ps.
xcix. 1 (comp. Ps. lxxx. 2), designated as He who sitteth over the
Cherubim. In 2 Chron. xxxv. 3, we have a distinct historical witness
for the existence of the Ark, so late as the 18th year of Josiah. The
fable in 2 Maccab. ii. 4, ff., supposes that the Ark was at its
ordinary place, down to the time of the breaking in of the Chaldean
catastrophe. One might as well infer from chap. iii. 18, that, at the
time when these words were spoken, Judah must already, "in a mysterious
manner," have come into the land of the North.]

[Footnote 4: _Baehr_ advances the assertion, "In a (the) cloud" is
equivalent to: "in darkness." But the parallel passages, Exod. xl. 34
ff., Numb. ix. 15, 16, quoted by _J. H. Michaelis_, are quite
sufficient to overthrow this assertion. And these parallel passages are
so much the more to the point, that by the article the cloud is
designated as being already known; compare _Hofmann_, _Schriftbeweis_
ii. 1, S. 36. The cloud in ver. 13 is not identical with that in ver.
2, but is its necessary parallel. The cloud in ver. 2 symbolises the
truth that the Lord is a consuming fire (compare my remarks on Rev. i.
7); that in ver. 13 is an embodied _Kyrie eleison_, compare remarks on
Rev. v. 8. Cloud with cloud,--that is a noble advice for the Church
when she is threatened by the judgments of God. A thorough refutation
of _Baehr_ has been given by _W. Neumann_: _Beitraege zur Symbolik des
Mos. Cultus_, _Zeitschr. f. Luth. Theol._, 1851, i.]

[Footnote 5: In a certain sense, one may say that [Hebrew: wrirvt lb]
is a [Greek: hapax legomenon]. It occurs independently in one single
passage only, in Deut. xxix. 18; in the other passages (eight times in
Jeremiah, and besides, in Ps. lxxxi. 13), it was evidently not taken
from the living _usus loquendi_ from which it had disappeared, but from
the fundamental passage in the written code of law. This fact will, _a
priori_, appear probable, when we keep in mind that, among all the
books of the Pentateuch, Jeremiah has chiefly Deuteronomy before his
eyes; and among all the chapters of Deuteronomy, none more than the
29th; and that Ps. lxxxi. is pervaded by literal allusions to the
Pentateuch. But it is put beyond all doubt, when we enter upon a
comparison of the passage in Deuteronomy with the parallel passages.
Here we must begin with Jer. xxiii. 17, where the verbal agreement
comes out most strongly, and then we shall