Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Jeremiah 22:19

There is 1 footnote for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 7, page 302, footnote 5 (Image)

Lactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus, Dionysius, Apostolic Teaching and Constitutions, 2 Clement, Early Liturgies

Lactantius (HTML)

Of the Manner in Which the Persecutors Died (HTML)

Chap. IV (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1967 (In-Text, Margin)

... Church,—and who but a bad man would persecute religion? It seems as if he had been raised to sovereign eminence, at once to rage against God, and at once to fall; for, having undertaken an expedition against the Carpi, who had then possessed themselves of Dacia and Moefia, he was suddenly surrounded by the barbarians, and slain, together with great part of his army; nor could he be honoured with the rites of sepulture, but, stripped and naked, he lay to be devoured by wild beasts and birds,[Jeremiah 22:19] —a fit end for the enemy of God.