Jeremias 23:21
I did not send prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Non mittebam prophetas, et ipsi currebant : non loquebar ad eos, et ipsi prophetabant.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- οὐκ ἀπέστελλον τοὺς προφήτας, καὶ αὐτοὶ ἔτρεχον· οὐδὲ ἐλάλησα πρὸς αὐτούς, καὶ αὐτοὶ ἐπροφήτευον.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- לֹא שָׁלַ֥חְתִּי אֶת הַנְּבִאִ֖ים וְהֵ֣ם רָ֑צוּ לֹא דִבַּ֥רְתִּי אֲלֵיהֶ֖ם וְהֵ֥ם נִבָּֽאוּ
Haydock's commentary
Not send. The want of mission proves a prophet or preacher to be false. (Worthington)
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 Cyprian Treatise I
11. Against people of this kind the Lord cries; from these He restrains and recalls His erring people, saying, “Hearken not unto the words of the false prophets; for the visions of their hearts deceive them. They speak, but not out of the mouth of the Lord. They say to those who cast away the word of God, Ye shall have peace, and every one that walketh after his own will. Every one who walketh in the error of his heart, no evil shall come upon him. I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied. …