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Revelation 3:16 (WEB)
So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will vomit you out of my mouth.

Fathers and councils · 8

John Cassian, Conferences I–X III.9Conference III
“Because thou sayest I am rich and wealthy and have need of nothing: and knowest not that thou art wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked, I counsel thee to buy of me gold fire-tried, that thou mayest be made rich, and mayest be clothed in white garments, and that the shame of thy nakedness may not appear.”” — editor's note: Rev. iii. 16–18.
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John Cassian, Conferences I–X IV.12Conference IV
“But now thou art lukewarm, and I will forthwith spue thee out of my mouth;” were it not that these contentions which rise up on both sides disturb and destroy this condition of lukewarmness.” — editor's note: Rev. iii. 15, 16.
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John Cassian, Conferences I–X IV.19Conference IV
“But now thou art lukewarm and I will begin to spue thee out of My mouth.”” — editor's note: Rev. iii. 15, 16.
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Jerome, Letters Letter 31
“The Saviour likes nothing that is half and half, and, while he welcomes the hot and does not shun the cold, he tells us in the Apocalypse that he will spew the lukewarm out of his mouth.” — editor's note: Rev. iii. 15, 16.
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Jerome, Letters Letter 54
“But while He does not wish the death of a sinner, but only that he should be converted and live, He hates the lukewarm and they quickly cause him loathing.” — editor's note: Rev. iii. 16.
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Gregory the Great, The Book of Pastoral Rule III.35Part III
“Let them hear what is written; I would thou wert cold or hot: but, because than art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will begin to spue thee out of my mouth (Rev. iii. 15, 16).” — the author cites it
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Augustine of Hippo, The City of God XIII.24Book XIII
“…proceed out of His mouth, let them hear or read what God says: “So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.”” — editor's note: Rev. iii. 16.
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Augustine of Hippo, Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 99
“And taste may be included, in accordance with which God hateth the bitter in temper, and spueth out of His mouth those who are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot: and Christ our God saith, “My meat is to do the will of Him that sent me.”” — editor's note: Rev. iii. 16.
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