Jeremiah 11:19 (WEB)
But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying, “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, and let’s cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”
Catechism · 1
“By doing so, he reveals that Jesus is at the same time the suffering Servant who silently allows himself to be led to the slaughter and who bears the sin of the multitudes, and also the Paschal Lamb, the symbol of Israel's redemption at the first Passover.” — Catechism footnote: Is 53:7, 12; cf. Jer 11:19; Ex 12:3-14; Jn 19:36; 1 Cor 5:7.
Fathers and councils · 8
Tertullian
“For of this tree likewise it is that God hints, through Jeremiah, that you would say, “Come, let us put wood into his bread, and let us wear him away out of the land of the living; and his name shall no more be remembered.”” — editor's note: See Jer. xi. 19 (in LXX.).
Read the whole comment“This tree it is which Jeremiah likewise gives you intimation of, when he prophesies to the Jews, who should say, “Come, let us destroy the tree with the fruit, (the bread) thereof,” that is, His body.” — editor's note: Jer. xi. 19.
Read the whole comment“He did not understand how ancient was this figure of the body of Christ, who said Himself by Jeremiah: “I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter, and I knew not that they devised a device against me, saying, Let us cast the tree upon His bread,” which means, of course, the cross upon His body.” — editor's note: So the Septuagint in Jer. xi. 19, Ξύλον εἰς τὸν ἄρτον αὐτοῦ (A.V. “Let us destroy the tree with the fruit”). See above, book iii. chap. xix. p. 337.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“Hear then from Jeremias, and assure thyself; I was like a harmless lamb led to be slaughtered; did I not know it? (for in this manner read it as a question, as I have read it; for He who said, Ye know that after two days comes the passover, and the Son of Man is betrayed to be crucified, did He not know?)” — editor's note: Jer. xi. 19: I was like a tame (R.V. gentle) lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me. Cyril’s interrogative…
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Justin Martyr
“And from the sayings of Jeremiah they have cut out the following: ‘I [was] like a lamb that is brought to the slaughter: they devised a device against me, saying, Come, let us lay on wood on His bread, and let us blot Him out from the land of the living; and His name shall no more be remembered.’” — editor's note: Jer. xi. 19.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“And next, the prophets after him witness of this, saying: “But I as an innocent lamb brought to be slain, knew it not; they counselled an evil counsel against me, saying, Hither and let us cast a tree upon his bread, and efface him from the land of the living.”” — editor's note: Jer. xi. 19.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“I was led like a lamb without malice to the slaughter; against me they devised a device, saying, Come, let us cast the tree into His bread, and let us erase His life from the earth, and His name shall no more be a remembrance.”” — editor's note: Jer. xi. 18, 19.
Read the whole comment“Also in Jeremiah: “Come, let us cast the tree into His bread, and let us blot out His life from the earth.”” — editor's note: Jer. xi. 19.
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Cross-references · 6
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Word §34.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Word §34 and 1 other place.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion III.18.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion III.18.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Word §34.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion III.18.