Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Lamentations 4:4

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 30, footnote 18 (Image)

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CCEL Footnote 494 (In-Text, Margin)

... verse: “The time is short: it remaineth that those who have wives be as though they had none.” Nebuchadnezzar is hard at hand. The lion is bestirring himself from his lair. What good will marriage be to me if it is to end in slavery to the haughtiest of kings? What good will little ones be to me if their lot is to be that which the prophet sadly describes: “The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst; the young children ask for bread and no man breaketh it unto them”?[Lamentations 4:4] In those days, as I have said, the virtue of continence was found only in men: Eve still continued to travail with children. But now that a virgin has conceived in the womb and has borne to us a child of which the prophet says that “Government shall ...