Jeremias 3:9
And by the facility of her fornication she defiled the land, and played the harlot with stones and with stocks.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- et facilitate fornicationis suæ contaminavit terram, et mœchata est cum lapide et ligno :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐγένετο εἰς οὐθὲν ἡ πορνεία αὐτῆς, καὶ ἐμοίχευσεν τὸ ξύλον καὶ τὸν λίθον.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְהָיָה֙ מִקֹּ֣ל זְנוּתָ֔הּ וַתֶּחֱנַ֖ף אֶת הָאָ֑רֶץ וַתִּנְאַ֥ף אֶת הָאֶ֖בֶן וְאֶת הָעֵֽץ
The Fathers on this verse
St Cyprian The Epistles of Cyprian, Epistle LXII
18. To neglect these things any further, and to persevere in the former error, what is it else than to fall under the Lord’s rebuke, who in the psalm reproveth, and says, “What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant into thy mouth, seeing thou hatest instruction and castest my words behind thee? When thou sawest a thief, thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.” For to declare the righteousness and the covenant of the Lord, and not to do the same that the Lord did, what else is it than to cast away His words and to despise the Lord’s instruction, to commit not earthly, but spiritual thefts and adulteries? While any one is stealing from evangelical truth the words and doings of our Lord, he is corrupting and adulterating the divine precepts, as it is written in Jeremiah. …