Jeremiah 2:13 (WEB)
“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water.
Catechism · 1
“Paradoxically our prayer of petition is a response to the plea of the living God: "They have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewn out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water!"” — Catechism footnote: Jer 2:13.
Fathers and councils · 18
Irenaeus of Lyons
“…life from the mother’s breasts, nor do they enjoy that most limpid fountain which issues from the body of Christ; but they dig for themselves broken cisterns out of earthly trenches, and drink putrid water out of the mire, fleeing from the faith of the Church lest they be convicted; and rejecting the Spirit, that…” — editor's note: Jer. ii. 13.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“If God be, and be called, the Fountain of wisdom and life—as He says by Jeremiah, ‘They have forsaken Me the Fountain of living waters;’ and again, ‘A glorious high throne from the beginning, is the place of our sanctuary; O Lord, the Hope of Israel, all that forsake Thee shall be ashamed, and…” — editor's note: Jer. ii. 13.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…the poison of curiosity are the motions of the dead soul; for the soul dies not so as to lose all motion, because it dies by forsaking the fountain of life, and so is received by this transitory world, and is conformed unto it.” — editor's note: Jer. ii. 13. See p. 133, note 2, and p. 129, note 8, above.
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Justin Martyr
“Shall there be a wilderness where Mount Zion is, because I gave Jerusalem a bill of divorce in your sight?’” — editor's note: Jer. ii. 13.
Read the whole comment“And we are such; but you cannot comprehend this, because you cannot drink of the living fountain of God, but of broken cisterns which can hold no water, as the Scripture says.” — editor's note: Jer. ii. 13.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“…in the Book of the Prophet Jeremiah “they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water,” so these men, in their opposition to the Œcumenical synod, have hewed for themselves many synods which have all proved vain and like “buds that yield no meal,”…” — editor's note: Jer. ii. 13
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Cyprian of Carthage
“And it is written in the words of the Lord, “They have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out broken cisterns, which can hold no water.”” — editor's note: Jer. ii. 13.
Read the whole comment“Again, the Lord points out and designates these same, saying, “They have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and have hewed them out broken cisterns which can hold no water.”” — editor's note: Jer. ii. 13.
Read the whole comment“Also in Jeremiah the Lord says: “They have forsaken me, the fountain of living water, and have dug for themselves worn-out cisterns, which could not hold water.”” — editor's note: Jer. ii. 13.
Read the whole comment“To the wood and to the stone they have said, Thou art my father; and to the stone, Thou hast begotten me: and they turned to me their back, and not their face.”” — editor's note: Jer. x. 2–5, 9, 11; ii. 12, 13, 19, 20, 27.
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Jerome
“Once she despised the broken cisterns of which the prophet speaks; but now she has found in the Lord a fountain of life.” — editor's note: Jer. ii. 13.
Read the whole comment“No, let him “possess his vessel in sanctification and honour,” let him drink of his own wells not out of the dissolute cisterns of the harlots which cannot hold within them the pure waters of chastity.” — editor's note: Jer. ii. 13, Cisternas dissipates.
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Basil the Great
“…the words of the prophet, “They have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water;” when all the while they ought to confess that the Father is God, the Son God, and the Holy Ghost God, as they have been taught by the divine words, and by…” — editor's note: Jer. ii. 13.
Read the whole comment“The heavens are astonished at this, and the earth is horribly afraid, saith the Lord, for the virgin has committed two evils; she has forsaken Me, the true and holy Bridegroom of holy souls, and has betaken herself to an impious and lawless destroyer of body and soul alike.” — editor's note: cf. Jer. ii. 12, 13, LXX.
Read the whole comment“…heaven at the tidings of the unholy deeds of the people: “The heaven was astonished at this, and was horribly afraid, because my people committed two evils.”” — editor's note: Jer. ii. 12, 13, lxx.
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Ambrose of Milan
“And again: “They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water.”” — editor's note: Jer. ii. 13.
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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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Clement of Alexandria
“For My people have committed two evils; they have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, and have hewn out to themselves broken cisterns, which will not be able to hold water.”” — editor's note: Jer. ii. 12, 13.
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Cross-references · 41
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Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 140.
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Cited together in Epistles Letter 69.
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Cited together in Ecclesiastical History II.18.
Cited together in Catechism §2561.
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Cited together in Epistles Letter 69.
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Cited together in Against Heresies III.24.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 12.
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Cited together in Epistles Letter 69.
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Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 12.
Cited together in Epistles Letter 69.
Cited together in Epistles Letter 69.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 12.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 12.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 12.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 114.
Cited together in Epistles Letter 69.
Cited together in Against the Arians I.5.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 140.
Cited together in Catechism §2561.
Cited together in Catechism §2561.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 114.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 114.
Cited together in Against the Arians I.5.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 114.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 140.