Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Jeremiah 12:2
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 11, page 373, footnote 7 (Image)
Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins, John Cassian
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Conference VII. First Conference of Abbot Serenus. On Inconstancy of Mind, and Spiritual Wickedness. (HTML)
Chapter XXXI. On the fact that those men are more to be pitied to whom it is not given to be subjected to those temporal temptations. (HTML)
... of sinners, although he never professes to doubt about the justice of God, as he says “for Thou art just, O Lord, if I dispute with Thee,” yet in his inquiry as to the reasons of this inequality, proceeds to say: “But yet I will speak what is just to Thee. Why doth the way of the wicked prosper? Why is it well with all them that transgress and do wickedly? Thou hast planted them and they have taken root: they prosper and bring forth fruit. Thou art near in their mouth and far from their reins.”[Jeremiah 12:1-2] And when the Lord mourns for their destruction by the prophet, and anxiously directs doctors and physicians to heal them, and in a manner urges them on to a similar lamentation and says: “Babylon is suddenly fallen: she is destroyed. Howl for her: ...