Jeremias 2
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Jeremias 2:10-11
This alone among all evils is without comparison. This is a new act of shamelessness in life. "Go over to the islands of Kittim and see," the Lord says. "Send to Kedar and consider carefully whether anything like this has ever been done—if a nation has changed its gods? (Yet they are not gods at all.)." But the virgin "has changed her glory," and her glory is in her shame. — LETTER 46, TO A FALLEN VIRGIN
Jeremias 2:12
Not only Paul, but generally all those to whom is committed any ministry of the word, never cease from testifying but call heaven and earth to witness on the ground that now every deed that is done is done within them, and that in the examination of all the actions of life they will be present with the judged. So it is said, "He shall call to the heavens above and to the earth, that he may judge his people." And so Moses when about to deliver his oracles to the people says, "I call heaven and earth to witness this day," and again in his song he says, "Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak. Hear, O earth, the words of my mouth." Isaiah invokes: "Hear, O heavens. Listen, O earth." Jeremiah describes astonishment in heaven at the tidings of the unholy deeds of the people: "The heaven was astonished at this and was horribly afraid, because my people committed two evils." — ON THE SPIRIT 13:30
Jeremias 2:13
Is he not one who bewitches the sheep of our patriarch, that they may not drink from the pure water that springs up unto life everlasting but may draw down on themselves the saying of the prophet: "They have forsaken me, the fountain of living water, and have dug for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water"? Because they should confess that the Father is God, the Son is God and the Holy Spirit is God, as the divine Word teaches and as they who have pondered it more deeply have taught. — LETTER 8
Jeremias 2:13
"He has opened a pit and dug it." We do not find the name of "pit" ever assigned in the divine Scriptures to something good or a "well" of water to something bad. That into which Joseph was thrown by his brothers is a pit. There is a slaughter "from the firstborn of Pharaoh to the firstborn of the captive woman that was in prison." In the Psalms, "I am counted among those who go down to the pit." In Jeremiah it is said, "They have forsaken me, the fountain of living water, and have dug to themselves cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water." — HOMILIES ON THE PSALMS 11:8 (PS 7)