The Roll Was Consumed in the Fire
I was reminded yesterday in gospel doctrine of the story of the king Jehoiakim and the roll of Jeremiah. The Lord commanded Jeremiah, “Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day.” And so he dictated to Baruch his scribe all of the words of the Lord that had been given to him, and they were written “upon a roll of a book.” I wrote about this story previously and how three princes stood up for the word of the Lord, but the king rejected them. The account tells us, “So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll: and he took it out of Elishama the scribe’s chamber. And Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes which stood beside the king. Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him. And it came to pass, that when...