Jeremiah 51:6 (WEB)
“Flee out of the middle of Babylon! Everyone save his own life! Don’t be cut off in her iniquity, for it is the time of the LORD’s vengeance. He will give to her a recompense.
Fathers and councils · 4
Jerome
“Also by Jeremiah, “Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and save every man his life, and believe not the false prophets which say, Peace, peace, and there is no peace;” who are always repeating, “The temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.”” — editor's note: Jer. li. 6; vi. 14.
Read the whole comment“Turn back also to Jeremiah and pay heed to what he has written of like import: “Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul.”” — editor's note: Jer. li. 6.
Read the whole comment“Like Abraham your mother heard the words: “get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, unto a land that I will shew thee;” and not only that but the Lord’s command given through Jeremiah: “flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul.”” — editor's note: Jer. li. 6.
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Augustine of Hippo
“Nor did the mother of my flesh, although she herself had ere this fled “out of the midst of Babylon,”—progressing, however, but slowly in the skirts of it,—in counselling me to chastity, so bear in mind what she had been told about me by her husband as to…” — editor's note: Jer. li. 6.
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Cross-references · 4
Cited together in Confessions II.3.
Cited together in Confessions II.3.
Cited together in Confessions II.3.
Cited together in Confessions II.3.