Jeremias 3:19
But I said: How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a lovely land, the goodly inheritance of the armies of the Gentiles? And I said: Thou shalt call me father and shalt not cease to walk after me.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Ego autem dixi : Quomodo ponam te in filios, et tribuam tibi terram desiderabilem, hæreditatem præclaram exercituum gentium ? Et dixi : Patrem vocabis me, et post me ingredi non cessabis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐγὼ εἶπα Γένοιτο, Κύριε· ὅτι τάξω σε εἰς ἔθνη, καὶ δώσω σοι γῆν ἐκλεκτὴν κληρονομίαν θεοῦ Παντοκράτορος ἐθνῶν· καὶ εἶπα Πατέρα καλέσετέ με, καὶ ἀπ᾽ ἐμοῦ οὐκ ἀποστραφήσεσθε.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְאָנֹכִ֣י אָמַ֗רְתִּי אֵ֚יךְ אֲשִׁיתֵ֣ךְ בַּבָּנִ֔ים וְאֶתֶּן לָךְ֙ אֶ֣רֶץ חֶמְדָּ֔ה נַחֲלַ֥ת צְבִ֖י צִבְא֣וֹת גּוֹיִ֑ם וָאֹמַ֗ר אָבִי֙ תקראו לִ֔י וּמֵאַחֲרַ֖י לֹ֥א תשובו
Haydock's commentary
Gentiles, which they all covet, or to which they are invited in the Church. (Calmet)
Me. On these conditions thou shalt be restored. (Haydock)
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
Clement of Alexandria The Stromata, or Miscellanies, Chapter XIV. Greek Plagiarism from the Hebrews
The Pythagoreans call heaven the Antichthon [the opposite Earth]. And in this land, it is said by Jeremiah, “I will place thee among the children, and give thee the chosen land as inheritance of God Omnipotent;” and they who inherit it shall reign over the earth. Myriads on myriads of examples rush on my mind which might adduce. But for the sake of symmetry the discourse must now stop, in order that we may not exemplify the saying of Agatho the tragedian:
St John Cassian The Conferences of John Cassian. Part II. Containing Conferences XI-XVII, Chapter VIII. Of the grace of God and the freedom of the will
And this care of His and providence with regard to us the Divine word has finely described by the prophet Hosea under the figure of Jerusalem as an harlot, and inclining with disgraceful eagerness to the worship of idols, where when she says: “I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread, and my water, and my wool, and my flax, and my oil, and my drink;” the Divine consideration replies having regard to her salvation and not to her wishes: “Behold I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will stop it up with a wall, and she shall not find her paths. …