Jeremias 6:14
And they healed the breach of the daughter of my people disgracefully, saying: Peace, peace: and there was no peace.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et curabant contritionem filiæ populi mei cum ignominia, dicentes : Pax, pax ! et non erat pax.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἰῶντο τὸ σύντριμμα τοῦ λαοῦ μου, ἐξουθενοῦντες καὶ λέγοντες Εἰρήνη εἰρήνη· καὶ ποῦ ἐστιν εἰρήνη;
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַֽיְרַפְּא֞וּ אֶת שֶׁ֤בֶר עַמִּי֙ עַל נְקַלָּ֔ה לֵאמֹ֖ר שָׁל֣וֹם שָׁל֑וֹם וְאֵ֖ין שָׁלֽוֹם
Haydock's commentary
Disgracefully. They shall be ashamed, when the contrary to what they declared shall come to pass, chap. viii. 11.
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 Jerome Against Jovinianus, Book II
37. About four hundred years have passed since the preaching of Christ flashed upon the world, and during that time in which His robe has been torn by countless heresies, almost the whole body of error has been derived from the Chaldæan, Syriac, and Greek languages. Basilides, the master of licentiousness and the grossest sensuality, after the lapse of so many years, and like a second Euphorbus, was changed by transmigration into Jovinian, so that the Latin tongue might have a heresy of its own. Was there no other province in the whole world to receive the gospel of pleasure, and into which the serpent might insinuate itself, except that which was founded by the teaching of Peter, upon the rock Christ? Idol temples had fallen before the standard of the Cross and the severity of the Gospel: now on the contrary lust and gluttony endeavour to overthrow the solid structure of the Cross. …