Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Baruch 5:5

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 159, footnote 20 (Image)

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CCEL Footnote 2349 (In-Text, Margin)

... confession of his faults went back justified far more than the Pharisee with his arrogant boasting of his virtues. This is not however the place to preach penitence, neither am I writing against Montanus and Novatus. Else would I say of it that it is “a sacrifice…well pleasing to God,” I would cite the words of the psalmist: “the sacrifices of God are a broken spirit,” and those of Ezekiel “I prefer the repentance of a sinner rather than his death,” and those of Baruch, “Arise, arise, O Jerusalem,”[Baruch 5:5] and many other proclamations made by the trumpets of the prophets.