Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Jeremiah 23:30

There are 2 footnotes for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 5, page 363, footnote 7 (Image)

Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius, Novatian, Appendix

Cyprian. (HTML)

The Epistles of Cyprian. (HTML)

Cæcilius, on the Sacrament of the Cup of the Lord. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2704 (In-Text, Margin)

... away His words and to despise the Lord’s instruction, to commit not earthly, but spiritual thefts and adulteries? While any one is stealing from evangelical truth the words and doings of our Lord, he is corrupting and adulterating the divine precepts, as it is written in Jeremiah. He says, “What is the chaff to the wheat? Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the Lord, who steal my words every one from his neighbour, and cause my people to err by their lies and by their lightness.”[Jeremiah 23:30] Also in the same prophet, in another place, He says, “She committed adultery with stocks and stones, and yet for all this she turned not unto me.” That this theft and adultery may not fall unto us also, we ought to be anxiously careful, and ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 2, page 596, footnote 7 (Image)

Augustine: The City of God, Christian Doctrine

It is Permissible for a Preacher to Deliver to the People What Has Been Written by a More Eloquent Man Than Himself. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2019 (In-Text, Margin)

... eloquence by others, and commit it to memory, and deliver it to the people, they cannot be blamed, supposing them to do it without deception. For in this way many become preachers of the truth (which is certainly desirable), and yet not many teachers; for all deliver the discourse which one real teacher has composed, and there are no divisions among them. Nor are such men to be alarmed by the words of Jeremiah the prophet, through whom God denounces those who steal His words every one from his neighbor.[Jeremiah 23:30] For those who steal take what does not belong to them, but the word of God belongs to all who obey it; and it is the man who speaks well, but lives badly, who really takes the words that belong to another. For the good things he says seem to be the ...