Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Jeremiah 5:31

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 2, page 584, footnote 2 (Image)

Augustine: The City of God, Christian Doctrine

Beauty of Diction to Be in Keeping with the Matter. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1954 (In-Text, Margin)

... heinous deeds of wickedness and baseness which wicked and base men have with great eloquence recommended, not with a view to gaining assent, but merely for the sake of being read with pleasure. But may God avert from His Church what the prophet Jeremiah says of the synagogue of the Jews: “A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land: the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests applaud them with their hands; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?”[Jeremiah 5:30-31] O eloquence, which is the more terrible from its purity, and the more crushing from its solidity! Assuredly it is “a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces.” For to this God Himself has by the same prophet compared His own word spoken through His ...