Jeremias 8:11
And they healed the breach of the daughter of my people disgracefully, saying Peace, peace: when there was no peace.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et sanabant contritionem filiæ populi mei ad ignominiam, dicentes : Pax, pax ! cum non esset pax.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- The Septuagint has no verse matching this one here: it lacks the verse, or carries it elsewhere in its own order.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיְרַפּ֞וּ אֶת שֶׁ֤בֶר בַּת עַמִּי֙ עַל נְקַלָּ֔ה לֵאמֹ֖ר שָׁל֣וֹם שָׁל֑וֹם וְאֵ֖ין שָׁלֽוֹם
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Answer to the Letters of Petilian, the Donatist, Chapter 71
Chapter 71. 157. Petilianus said: "To you the prophet says, ‘Peace, peace; and where is there peace?’"
St Augustine Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament, On the words of the Gospel, Luke x. 2, ‘The harvest truly is plenteous,’ etc
11. Let then such as these, the Apostles of Christ, the preachers of the Gospel, who “salute not by the way,” that is, who do not seek or do any other thing, but who in genuine charity preach the Gospel, let them come into the house, and say, “Peace to this house.” They speak not with the mouth only; they pour out that of which they are full; they preach peace, and they have peace. They are not as those of whom it was said, “Peace, Peace, and there is no peace.” What is, “Peace, Peace, and there is no peace”? They preach it, but they have it not; they praise it and they love it not; they say, and do not. …