THE PROPHECY OF, one of the apocryphal books, subjoined to the canon of the Old Testament. Baruch was the son of Neriah, the disciple and amanuensis of the prophet Jeremiah; and his prophecy has by some been reckoned part of that of Jeremiah. It is difficult to determine in what language this prophecy was originally written. Three copies of it are still extant, one in Greek, and the other two in Syriac; but which of these, or whether any one of them, is the original, remains uncertain.