Jeremiah 2:19 (WEB)
“Your own wickedness will correct you, and your backsliding will rebuke you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing, that you have forsaken the LORD your God, and that my fear is not in you,” says the Lord, GOD of Armies.
Fathers and councils · 5
Irenaeus of Lyons
“…long-suffering in the case of man’s apostasy; while man has been instructed by means of it, as also the prophet says, “Thine own apostasy shall heal thee;” God thus determining all things beforehand for the bringing of man to perfection, for his edification, and for the revelation of His dispensations, that…” — editor's note: Jer. ii. 19.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIII.9Conference XXIII
“Know thou and see that it is an evil and a bitter thing for thee to have left the Lord thy God;” for “every man is bound by the cords of his sins.”” — editor's note: Hos. vii. 13; ix. 12; Jer. ii. 19; Prov. v. 22.
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“This then is that body of death from which we cannot escape, pent in which those who are perfect, who have tasted “how gracious the Lord is,” daily feel with the prophet “how bad for himself and bitter it is for a man to depart from the Lord his God.”” — editor's note: Jer. ii. 19.
Read the whole comment - John Cassian, Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIV.24Conference XXIV
“Know thou and see that it is an evil and a bitter thing for thee to have left the Lord thy God, and that My fear is not with thee, saith the Lord.”” — editor's note: Jer. ii. 18, 19.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“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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Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIII.16.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIV.24.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIII.9 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIII.9.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIV.24.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIV.24.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIV.24.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIII.9 and 1 other place.