Jeremias 7:5
For if you will order well your ways, and your doings: if you will execute judgment between a man and his neighbour,
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Quoniam si bene direxeritis vias vestras, et studia vestra ; si feceritis judicium inter virum et proximum ejus ;
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὅτι ἐὰν διορθοῦντες διορθώσητε τὰς ὁδοὺς ὑμῶν καὶ τὰ ἐπιτηδεύματα ὑμῶν, καὶ ποιοῦντες ποιήσητε κρίσιν ἀνὰ μέσον ἀνδρὸς καὶ ἀνὰ μέσον τοῦ πλησίον αὐτοῦ,
- Hebrew (WLC)
- כִּ֤י אִם הֵיטֵיב֙ תֵּיטִ֔יבוּ אֶת דַּרְכֵיכֶ֖ם וְאֶת מַֽעַלְלֵיכֶ֑ם אִם עָשׂ֤וֹ תַֽעֲשׂוּ֙ מִשְׁפָּ֔ט בֵּ֥ין אִ֖ישׁ וּבֵ֥ין רֵעֵֽהוּ
The Fathers on this verse
Aphrahat Aphrahat: Select Demonstrations, Of Faith
3. And now hear concerning faith that is based upon the Stone, and concerning the structure that is reared up upon the Stone. For first a man believes, and when he believes, he loves. When he loves, he hopes. When he hopes, he is justified. When he is justified, he is perfected. When he is perfected, he is consummated. And when his whole structure is raised up, consummated, and perfected, then he becomes a house and a temple for a dwelling-place of Christ, as Jeremiah the Prophet said: The temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord are ye, if ye amend your ways and your works . And again He said through the Prophet: I will dwell in them and walk in them . And also the Blessed Apostle thus said: Ye are the temple of God and the spirit of Christ dwelleth in you . And also our Lord again thus said to His disciples: Ye are in Me and I am in you .
Aphrahat Aphrahat: Select Demonstrations, Of Christ the Son of God
6. For by the mouth of His prophet God called the heathen King Nebuchadnezzar, King of Kings. For Jeremiah said: Every people and kingdom that shall not put his neck into the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar, King of Kings, My servant, with famine and with sword and with pestilence will I visit that people . Though He is the great King, He grudges not the name of Kingship to men. And (so), though He is the great God, yet He grudged not the name of Godhead to the sons of flesh. And though all fatherhood is His, He has called men also fathers. For He said to the congregation: Instead of thy fathers, shall be thy children . And though authority is His, He has given men authority one over another. And while worship is His unto honour, He has yet allowed it in the world, that one man should honour another. …