Jeremias 17:15
Behold they say to me: Where is the word of the Lord? let it come.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Ecce ipsi dicunt ad me : Ubi est verbum Domini ? veniat :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἰδοὺ αὐτοὶ λέγουσι πρὸς μέ Ποῦ ἐστιν ὁ λόγος Κυρίου; ἐλθάτω.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- הִנֵּה הֵ֕מָּה אֹמְרִ֖ים אֵלָ֑י אַיֵּ֥ה דְבַר יְהוָ֖ה יָ֥בוֹא נָֽא
Haydock's commentary
Come. We have several instances of such impious sarcasms, Isaias xxviii. 10., and xxxiv. 13., Amos ii. 12., and Micheas ii. 6. (Calmet)
We fear not the Chaldeans. (Menochius)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St John Chrysostom The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom, Matthew III. 7
For having said that “God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham,” he added, “And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees,”by all means making his speech alarming. For as he from his way of life had much freedom of speech, so they needed his severe rebuke, having been left barrennow for a long time. For “why do I say” (such are his words) “that ye are on the point of falling away from your relationship to the patriarch and of seeing others, even those that are of stones, brought in to your pre-eminence? Nay, not to this point only will your penalty reach, but your punishment will proceed further. “For now,” saith he, “the axe is laid unto the root of the trees.” There is nothing more terrible than this turn of his discourse. …