Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Jeremiah 35:18

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 400, footnote 14 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

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CCEL Footnote 4806 (In-Text, Margin)

... abstinence and fasting. Aaron and the other priests when about to enter the temple, refrained from all intoxicating drink for fear they should die. Whence we learn that they die who minister in the Church without sobriety. And hence it is a reproach against Israel: “Ye gave my Nazarites wine to drink.” Jonadab, the son of Rechab, commanded his sons to drink no wine for ever. And when Jeremiah offered them wine to drink, and they of their own accord refused it, the Lord spake by the prophet, saying:[Jeremiah 35:18] “Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever.” On the threshold of the Gospel appears Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, the wife of one husband, and a woman ...