Jeremiah 2:10 (WEB)
For pass over to the islands of Kittim, and see. Send to Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there has been such a thing.
Fathers and councils · 4
John Chrysostom
“This God also did unto the Jews, when He said, “Go ye forth unto the Isles of Chittim, and send unto Kedar, and know if nations will change their gods; which yet are no gods.”” — editor's note: Jer. ii. 10, 11. [The citation is much abbreviated from the LXX., which does not vary materially from the Hebrew.—R.]
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Basil the Great
“Hath a nation changed their gods which are yet no gods.”” — editor's note: Jer. ii. 10, 11.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“For in reality, as the Scripture says, the shepherds became brutish, and many shepherds destroyed My vineyard, and defiled my pleasant portion, I mean the Church of God, which has been gathered together by the sweat and blood of many toilers and victims both before and after Christ, aye, even the great…” — editor's note: Ib. ii. 10.
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Aphrahat
“But they forsook Him, and worshipped idols, as Jeremiah said concerning them:—Go to the distant isles, and send to Kedar, and consider well and see, whether there has been (anything) like this, whether the nations change their gods, those that are no gods.” — editor's note: Jer. ii. 10–13.
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