Jeremiah 11:14 (WEB)
“Therefore don’t pray for this people. Don’t lift up cry or prayer for them; for I will not hear them in the time that they cry to me because of their trouble.
Fathers and councils · 4
John Chrysostom
“Hear, for example, what God saith unto this last, “Pray not thou for this people, for I will not hear thee.”” — editor's note: Jer. xi. 14.
Read the whole comment“Or having sins unrepented they ask mercy, which thing it is impossible to receive, not only if themselves ask it, but although others having much confidence towards God entreat for them, like as even Jeremiah praying for the Jews did hear, “Pray not thou for this people, because I will not hear thee.”” — editor's note: Jer. xi. 14.
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Jerome
“The prophet truly cries “They say Peace, peace: and yet there is no peace.”” — editor's note: Jer. xi. 14, LXX.
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Tertullian
“…not to pray for the aversion of ills on behalf of the sinful People,—“since, if they shall have fasted,” saith He, “I will not listen to their entreaty.”” — editor's note: Jer. xiv. 11, 12; vii. 16; xi. 14.
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