Book of Jeremiah

1. Letters Basil of Caesarea 6 authority 6 citations

   letter 130 · letter 188 · letter 189 · letter 203 · letter 236 · letter 244

   The proverbial imagery of unchangeable nature is drawn on to characterize Eustathius's fixed heresy.

   But when, on coming into Cilicia and meeting a certain Gelasius, he set forth to him a creed which only Arius, or some genuine disciple of his, could have composed, then indeed we were the more confirmed in our separation, reckoning that neither will the Ethiopian ever change his skin, nor the leopard his spots, nor can one bred up in perverse doctrines wash off the evil of his heresy.

2. Adversus Marcionem Tertullian 4 authority 4 citations · 5 passages

   book 4 4 passages anchored here · book 5

   Jeremiah is explicitly named and quoted as source of the new-testament prophecy.

   For by this saying he was suggesting to them an understanding of the prophecy fulfilled — that he was the one who had pronounced through Jeremiah, "Behold, I will send many fishers, and they shall fish them," men namely.

3. Stromata Clement of Alexandria 1 authority · 1 neutral 2 citations · 3 passages

   book 3 · book 5 2 passages anchored here

   Jeremiah is quoted by name and his lament is explained rather than taken at face value.

   "Cursed be the day on which I was born, and let it not be longed for," says Jeremiah—not calling generation simply cursed, but in despair over the sins of the people and their disobedience.

4. De Pudicitia Tertullian 2 authority 2 citations · 3 passages

   de pudicitia 3 passages anchored here

   Directly quoted prophetic text.

   " He too remembered that Jeremiah was forbidden by God to entreat for a people committing mortal offences.

5. Protrepticus Clement of Alexandria 1 authority 1 citation

   protrepticus

   Clement cites Jeremiah's new-covenant sayings on the heart-written law and remembered-no-more sins.

   He has turned the setting into a rising, and crucified death into life, and, snatching man out of destruction, has hung him up in the ether, transplanting corruption into incorruption and changing earth into heavens — the husbandman of God, "signalling good things, and rousing the peoples to a good work," reminding them of the true livelihood, and granting us the great and truly divine and inalien …

6. The Rights of War and Peace Hugo Grotius 1 neutral 1 citation

   ch. 31

   Explicitly named with reference to its thirty-eighth chapter.

   The history of Jeremiah, in the xxxviiith chapter of his prophecy, furnishes a remarkable instance of this kind.

7. Adversus Praxean Tertullian 1 authority 1 citation

   adversus praxean

   Explicitly cited by name as a prophetic proof text.

   the Scripture interpreting from outside that they did not know what he had said about the Father — when in fact they ought to have known that the words of the Father were in the Son, by reading in Jeremiah, "And the Lord said to me, Behold I have given my words in your mouth";

8. De Carnis Resurrectione Tertullian 1 neutral 1 citation

   de carnis resurrectione

   Named explicitly though not directly quoted, as an example prophet.

   What are these figures in Isaiah, what images in David, what riddles in Jeremiah — when not even His mighty works were uttered through parables?

9. Scorpiace Tertullian 1 authority 1 citation

   scorpiace

   Explicitly named: 'they remembered also Jeremiah writing to those upon whom that captivity was impending.'

   "And now you shall see the gods of the Babylonians, of gold and silver and wood, carried upon the shoulders, displaying fear to the nations.

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