Jeremiah 5:8 (WEB)
They were as fed horses roaming at large. Everyone neighed after his neighbor’s wife.
Fathers and councils · 15
Irenaeus of Lyons
“And again Jeremiah says, “They are become like horses, furious about females; each one neighed after his neighbour’s wife.”” — editor's note: Jer. v. 8.
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Jerome
“Through counsels such as these your swine-herds are richer than our shepherds, and the he-goats draw after them many of the other sex:“They were as fed horses: they were mad after women”: they no sooner see a woman than they neigh after her, and, shame to say! find scriptural authority for the…” — editor's note: Jer. v. 8.
Read the whole comment“…women; so that there is nothing to separate us from swine, nothing wherein we differ from the brute creation, or from horses, respecting which it is written:“They were toward women like raging horses; everyone neighed after his neighbour’s wife.”” — editor's note: Jerem. v. 8.
Read the whole comment“If these instances are to justify us let us neigh after every woman that we meet; like the people of Sodom and Gomorrah let us be found by the last day buying and selling, marrying and giving in marriage; and let us only end our marrying with the close of our lives.” — editor's note: Cf. Jer. v. 8.
Read the whole comment“On your showing, Joseph must at once approach, her, and be subject to Jeremiah’s reproof, “They were as mad horses in respect of women: every one neighed after his neighbour’s wife.”” — editor's note: Jer. v. 8.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
- Athanasius of Alexandria, Against the Arians III.3Discourse III
“And again, ‘They were as wanton horses.’” — editor's note: Jer. v. 8.
Read the whole comment “But they are compared to their disgrace to beasts without understanding, and becoming like them in unlawful pleasures, they are spoken of as wanton horses; also, for their craftiness, and errors, and sin laden with death, they are called a ‘generation of vipers,’ as John saith.” — editor's note: Jer. v. 8.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“…of men; the fox to manifest the craft that is in men, and the snake the venomous treachery of friends, and the neighing horse the wantonness of young men, and the laborious ant, to arouse the sluggish and the dull: for when a man passes his youth in idleness, then he is instructed by the irrational animals,…” — editor's note: Jer. v. 8.
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John Chrysostom
“For if the prophetpermits not them to be accounted men, that “neigh after their neighbors wife,” who shall blame us for esteeming these to be goats and swine, and more insensible than asses, by whom those things are held uncertain, which are more evident than what we see?” — editor's note: Jerem. v. 8.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“But let that part of your being which is the seat of passion, and which neighs, as Holy Scripture calls it, when sweeping away this shameful passion, be restrained by a girdle of continence, so that you may eat the Passover purely, having…” — editor's note: Jer. v. 8.
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Clement of Alexandria
“…but simple, and bounding joyously to the Father alone; not such horses “as neigh after their neighbours’ wives, that are under the yoke, and are female-mad;” but free and new-born, jubilant by means of faith, ready to run to the truth, swift to speed to salvation, that tread and stamp under foot the things of the…” — editor's note: Jer. v. 8.
Read the whole comment“Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?”” — editor's note: Jer. v. 8, 9.
Read the whole comment“Malæenim. cupiditati nomen est ὕβρις, “petulantia;” et equum cupiditatis, “petulantem” vocavit Plato, cure legissit, “Facti estis mihi equi furentes in feminas.”” — editor's note: Jer. v. 8.
Read the whole comment“Atqui profecto, cum libidine vere insaniens, aliena inire voluerit, tunc revera, qui talis est, efferatur: “Equi in feminas furentes facti sunt, unusquisque hinniebat ad uxorem proximi sui.”” — editor's note: Jer. v. 8.
Read the whole comment“As slaves the Scripture views those “under sin” and “sold to sin,” the lovers of pleasure and of the body; and beasts rather than men, “those who have become like to cattle, horses, neighing after their neighbours’ wives.”” — editor's note: Jer. v. 8, etc.
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Cross-references · 12
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.41.
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Cited together in Against Heresies IV.41.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.41.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.41.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.41.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.41.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.41.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.41.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.41.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.41.