Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Jeremiah 3:1

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 227, footnote 1 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

The Letters of St. Jerome. (HTML)

To Rusticus. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 3155 (In-Text, Margin)

... Hear the words of the Lord: “If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man’s and shall afterwards desire to return to him, will he at all receive her? Will he not loathe her rather? But thou hast played the harlot with many lovers: yet return again to me, saith the Lord.” 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.”[Jeremiah 3:1] Isaiah also speaking in the same sense uses almost the same words: “Return,” he cries, “O children of Israel, ye who think deep counsel and wicked. Return thou unto me and I will redeem thee. I am God, and there is no God else beside me; a just God ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 8, page 227, footnote 3 (Image)

Basil: Letters and Select Works

The Letters. (HTML)

To Amphilochius, concerning the Canons. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2638 (In-Text, Margin)

IX. The sentence of the Lord that it is unlawful to withdraw from wedlock, save on account of fornication, applies, according to the argument, to men and women alike. Custom, however, does not so obtain. 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?”[Jeremiah 3:1] And again, “He that hath an adulteress is a fool and impious.” Yet custom ordains that men who commit adultery and are in fornication be retained by their wives. Consequently I do not know if the woman who lives with the man who has been dismissed can ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 8, page 237, footnote 6 (Image)

Basil: Letters and Select Works

The Letters. (HTML)

To Amphilochius, concerning the Canons. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2700 (In-Text, Margin)

XXI. If a man living with a wife is not satisfied with his marriage and falls into fornication, I account him a fornicator, and prolong his period of punishment. Nevertheless, we have no canon subjecting him to the charge of adultery, if the sin be committed against an unmarried woman. For the adulteress, it is said, “being polluted shall be polluted,”[Jeremiah 3:1] and she shall not return to her husband: and “He that keepeth an adulteress is a fool and impious.” He, however, who has committed fornication is not to be cut off from the society of his own wife. So the wife will receive the husband on his return from fornication, but the husband will expel the polluted woman from his ...