Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Jeremiah 15:7
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 11, page 358, footnote 17 (Image)
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... uncleanness,” and as by hardening their hearts, and by growing accustomed and used to sin they have got beyond cleansing in this brief life and punishment in the present world: men, who are thus reproved by the holy word of the prophet: “I destroyed some of you, as God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet you returned not to Me, saith the Lord,” and Jeremiah: “I have killed and destroyed thy people, and yet they are not returned from their ways.”[Jeremiah 15:7] And again: “Thou hast smitten them and they have not grieved: Thou hast bruised them and they refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than the rock, they have refused to return.” And the prophet seeing that all the remedies ...