Jeremiah 3:1 (WEB)
“They say, ‘If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and becomes another man’s, should he return to her again?’ Wouldn’t that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me,” says the LORD.
Fathers and councils · 4
Jerome
“In place of the last clause the true Hebrew text (which is not preserved in the Greek and Latin versions) gives the following: “thou hast forsaken me, yet return, and I will receive thee, saith the Lord.”” — editor's note: Jer. iii. 1, Vulg. The Hebrew contains nothing corresponding to the words “and I will receive thee.” The Latin Version mentioned in the text is of course the…
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Basil the Great
“Yet, in relation with women, very strict expressions are to be found; as, for instance, the words of the apostle “He which is joined to a harlot is one body” and of Jeremiah, If a wife “become another man’s shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted?”” — editor's note: Jer. iii. 1.
Read the whole comment“For the adulteress, it is said, “being polluted shall be polluted,” and she shall not return to her husband: and “He that keepeth an adulteress is a fool and impious.”” — editor's note: Jer. iii. 1.
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Gregory the Great
“But thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the Lord (Jer. iii. 1).” — the author cites it
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Cross-references · 25
Parallel passages
Jeremiah 3:1 and Ezekiel 16:28 share the same wording (11 words).
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Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.29.
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Cited together in Letters Letter 188.
Cited together in Letters Letter 199.
Cited together in Letters Letter 199.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.29.
Cited together in Letters Letter 188.
Cited together in Letters Letter 199.
Cited together in Letters Letter 188.
Cited together in Letters Letter 188.
Cited together in Letters Letter 188.
Cited together in Letters Letter 188.
Cited together in Letters Letter 199.
Cited together in Letters Letter 199.
Cited together in Letters Letter 199.
Cited together in Letters Letter 188.
Cited together in Letters Letter 188.
Cited together in Letters Letter 188.
Cited together in Letters Letter 188.
Cited together in Letters Letter 188 and 1 other place.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.29.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.29.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.29.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.29.