THE PROPHECY OF, one of the apocryphal books subjoined to the canon of the Old Testament. Baruch the son of Neriah was 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 deter- mine 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.