Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Jeremiah 10:16

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 3, page 163, footnote 3 (Image)

Theodoret, Jerome and Gennadius, Rufinus and Jerome

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Dialogues. The “Eranistes” or “Polymorphus” of the Blessed Theodoretus, Bishop of Cyrus. (HTML)

The Immutable. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 979 (In-Text, Margin)

Orth. —The creature is transformed by the Creator as He will, for it is mutable and obeys the nod of Him that fashioned it. But His nature is immutable and invariable, wherefore of the creature the prophet saith “He that maketh and transformeth all things.”[Jeremiah 10:16] But of the divine Word the great David says “Thou art the same and thy years shall not fail.” And again the same God says of Himself “For I am the Lord and I change not.”

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 7, page 222, footnote 23 (Image)

Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen

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In Defence of His Flight to Pontus, and His Return, After His Ordination to the Priesthood, with an Exposition of the Character of the Priestly Office. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2820 (In-Text, Margin)

90. For I own that I am too weak for this warfare, and therefore turned my back, hiding my face in the rout, and sat solitary, because I was filled with bitterness and sought to be silent, understanding that it is an evil time, that the beloved had kicked, that we were become backsliding children, who are the luxuriant vine, the true vine, all fruitful, all beautiful,[Jeremiah 10:16] springing up splendidly with showers from on high. For the diadem of beauty, the signet of glory, the crown of magnificence has been changed for me into shame; and if anyone, in face of these things, is daring and courageous, he has my blessing on his daring and courage.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 7, page 323, footnote 2 (Image)

Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen

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The Fifth Theological Oration. On the Holy Spirit. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 3718 (In-Text, Margin)

... might become the father of all men and gods whom he miserably devoured, and then vomited forth again. And if these are but myths and fables, as they say in order to escape the shamefulness of the story, what will they say in reference to the dictum that all things are divided into three parts, and that each god presides over a different part of the Universe, having a distinct province as well as a distinct rank? But our faith is not like this, nor is this the portion of Jacob, says my Theologian.[Jeremiah 10:16] But each of these Persons possesses Unity, not less with that which is United to it than with itself, by reason of the identity of Essence and Power. And this is the account of the Unity, so far as we have apprehended it. If then this account is the ...

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