Jeremiah 17:16 (WEB)
As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you. I haven’t desired the woeful day. You know. That which came out of my lips was before your face.
Fathers and councils · 6
John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences XVIII–XXIV XIX.4Conference XIX
“If then anyone else delights in the recesses of the desert and would forget all human intercourse and say with Jeremiah: “I have not desired the day of man: Thou knowest,” I confess that by the blessing of God’s grace, I also secured or at any rate tried to secure this.” — editor's note: Jer. xvii. 16.
Read the whole comment - John Cassian, Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIV.2Conference XXIV
“For to the very end of this life we must with the prophet say this: “And I have not desired the day of man, Thou knowest.”” — editor's note: Jer. xvii. 16.
Read the whole comment “…feet we run after the odour of the ointments of Christ, and of which David says: “I ran in thirst,” and Jeremiah: “But I am not troubled, following Thee”), we ought not to suffer them to be entangled in the deadly cares of this world, filling our thoughts with those things which concern not the supply of the…” — editor's note: Ps. lxi. (lxii.) 5; Jer. xvii. 16 (lxx.).
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Augustine of Hippo
“…of the present life; if the bird love this bait, it falleth into the trap: but if the bird be able to say, “The day of man have I not desired: Thou knowest:” “He shall pluck his feet out of the net,” etc. Two things he hath mentioned to be distinguished the one from the other: the trap he said was set by…” — editor's note: Jer. xvii. 16.
Read the whole comment“…kind of day to which the prophet refers when he says, “But I have not laboured following Thee, O Lord; and the day of man I have not desired, Thou knowest:” that is to say, to soar to the light of the Word, and to desire that day which Abraham desired to see, and which he did see, and was glad.” — editor's note: Jer. xvii. 16.
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Jerome
“Tell me where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon;” and with the psalmist: “my soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me;” and with Jeremiah: “I have not found it hard.…to follow thee,” for “there is no grief in Jacob neither is there travail in Israel.”” — editor's note: Jer. xvii. 16, LXX.
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Cross-references · 10
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIV.2.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIV.2.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIV.2.
Cited together in The Institutes I.9.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIV.2.
Cited together in The Institutes I.9.
Cited together in The Institutes I.9.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIV.2.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIV.2.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIV.2.