Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Jeremiah 50:23

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 192, footnote 7 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

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CCEL Footnote 2689 (In-Text, Margin)

... holiness with chastity.” If then parents are responsible for their children when these are of ripe age and independent; how much more must they be responsible for them when, still unweaned and weak, they cannot, in the Lord’s words, “discern between their right hand and their left:” —when, that is to say, they cannot yet distinguish good from evil? If you take precautions to save your daughter from the bite of a viper, why are you not equally careful to shield her from “the hammer of the whole earth”?[Jeremiah 50:23] to prevent her from drinking of the golden cup of Babylon? to keep her from going out with Dinah to see the daughters of a strange land? to save her from the tripping dance and from the trailing robe? No one administers drugs till he has rubbed the ...