Jeremias 2
John Cassian · Comentário Patrístico (catena)
Jeremias 2:11
The same erroneous notion by which they used to worship devils formed in the figure of people they use even now in thinking that the incomprehensible and ineffable glory of the true Deity should be worshiped under the limitations of some figure. They think they are unable to grasp and hold anything if they do not have some image set before them that they can continually address while they are at their devotion and that they can carry about in their mind and have always fixed before their eyes.… Jeremiah also says, "My people have changed their glory for an idol." — CONFERENCE 1:10.5
Jeremias 2:19
So also that unwearied goodness of God and his unchanging nature hurt no one indeed, but we ourselves by falling from on high and tending to the depths are the authors of our own death, or rather the very fall becomes death to the one who falls.… For "your own wickedness shall reprove you, and your apostasy shall rebuke you. Know and see that it is an evil and a bitter thing for you to have left the Lord your God"; for "everyone is bound by the cords of his sins." — CONFERENCE 3:23.9
Jeremias 2:19
This then is that body of death from which we cannot escape, confined in those who are perfect, who have tested "how gracious the Lord is," daily feel with the prophet "how bad for himself and bitter it is for a man to depart from the Lord his God." — CONFERENCE 3:23.16