Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Hosea 9:11

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 279, footnote 2 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

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CCEL Footnote 3870 (In-Text, Margin)

... the credit; and if they dislike it, only the disciples are blamed, the masters go free. In this way your heresy has grown and you have deceived many; especially those who cleave to women and are assured that they cannot sin. You are always teaching, you are always denying; you deserve to have the prophet’s words applied to you: “give to them glory, O Lord, when they are in travail and in the throes of labour. Give them, O Lord; what wilt thou give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.”[Hosea 9:11] My temper rises and I cannot check my words. The limits of a letter do not admit of a lengthy discussion. I assail nobody by name here. It is only against the teacher of perverse doctrine that I have spoken. If resentment shall induce him to reply, ...