Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Jeremiah 4:5

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 8, page 262, footnote 7 (Image)

Basil: Letters and Select Works

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Against Eustathius of Sebasteia. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2882 (In-Text, Margin)

... my heart the pangs which I suffered on account of the calumnies directed against me, for calumny humbles a man, and calumny makes a poor man giddy. If, therefore, the mischief of calumny is so great as to cast down even the perfect man from his height, for this is what Scripture indicates by the word man, and by the poor man is meant he who lacks the great doctrines, as is the view also of the prophet when he says, “These are poor, therefore they shall not hear;…I will get me unto the great men,”[Jeremiah 4:5] he means by poor those who are lacking in understanding; and here, too, he plainly means those who are not yet furnished in the inner man, and have not even come to the full measure of their age; it is these who are said by the proverb to be made ...