Jeremiah 4:4 (WEB)
Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
Fathers and councils · 8
Tertullian
“…people; while the prophet Jeremiah says, “Make a renewal for you, and sow not in thorns; be circumcised to God, and circumcise the foreskin of your heart:” and in another place he says, “Behold, days shall come, saith the Lord, and I will draw up, for the house of Judah and for the house of Jacob, a new testament;…” — editor's note: Jer. iv. 3, 4. In Eng. ver., “break up your fallow ground;” but comp. de Pu. c. vi. ad init.
Read the whole comment“In like manner by Jeremiah: Make to yourselves a new covenant, “circumcise yourselves to the Lord, and take away the foreskins of your heart.”” — editor's note: Jer. iv. 4.
Read the whole comment“So by Jeremiah: “Break up for yourselves new pastures, and sow not among thorns, and circumcise yourselves in the foreskin of your heart.”” — editor's note: Altered version of Jer. iv. 3, 4.
Read the whole comment“He remembered how that Jeremiah had said, “Circumcise the foreskins of your heart;” as Moses likewise had enjoined, “Circumcise your hard hearts”—not the literal flesh.” — editor's note: Jer. iv. 4.
Read the whole comment“Since this is the circumcision recommended by Jeremiah: “Circumcise (yourselves to the Lord, and take away) the foreskins of your heart;” and even of Moses: “Circumcise, therefore, the hardness of your heart,”—the Spirit which circumcises the heart will proceed from Him who prescribed the letter…” — editor's note: Jer. iv. 4.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“…Baptism, not in the foreskin of the body, but in the heart, according to Jeremiah, saying, And ye shall be circumcised unto God in the foreskin of your heart: and according to the Apostle, in the circumcision of Christ, having been buried with Him in baptism, and the rest.” — editor's note: Jer. iv. 4: Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, and take away the foreskins of your heart. The Septuagint agrees closely with the Hebrew, but Cyril quotes…
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Gregory the Great
“Hence it is that the Lord through the Prophet reproves not so much the wrong doings of precipitance as purposes of sin, saying, Lest perchance my indignation come out as fire, and be inflamed, and there be none to quench it because of the wickedness of your purposes (Jer. iv. 4).” — the author cites it
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Cyprian of Carthage
“In Jeremiah: “Thus saith the Lord to the men of Judah, and to them who inhabit Jerusalem, Renew newness among you, and do not sow among thorns: circumcise yourselves to your God, and circumcise the foreskin of your heart; lest my anger go forth like fire, and burn you up, and there be none to extinguish it.”” — editor's note: Jer. iv. 3, 4.
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Cross-references · 15
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.33.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion I.19.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion I.19.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion I.19.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion I.19.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion I.19.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion I.19.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews I.9.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews I.9.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews I.9.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.33.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.33.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion I.19.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion I.19.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion I.19.