Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Jeremiah 27:6

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 130, footnote 6 (Image)

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CCEL Footnote 1891 (In-Text, Margin)

... live, and regard those beyond the reach of these evils as miserable rather than blessed. We have long felt that God is angry, yet we do not try to appease Him. It is our sins which make the barbarians strong, it is our vices which vanquish Rome’s soldiers: and, as if there were here too little material for carnage, civil wars have made almost greater havoc among us than the swords of foreign foes. Miserable must those Israelites have been compared with whom Nebuchadnezzar was called God’s servant.[Jeremiah 27:6] Unhappy too are we who are so displeasing to God that He uses the fury of the barbarians to execute His wrath against us. Still when Hezekiah repented, one hundred and eighty-five thousand Assyrians were destroyed in one night by a single angel. ...