Jeremiah

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.

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.

And that the Scripture calls the foolish and disobedient "earth," Jeremiah the prophet will make plain, speaking against Joachim and his brothers:

Jeremiah the all-wise prophet, or rather the Holy Spirit in Jeremiah, shows God:

For just as the carnal circumcision, which was temporary, was instilled as a sign to a stubborn people, so the spiritual circumcision was given for salvation to an obedient people, the prophet Jeremiah saying:

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

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

For thus too Jeremiah commends him:

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";

So too you read the voice of God to Jeremiah:

But indeed Jeremiah, when he says, And I will gather them from the ends of the earth on a feast day, signifies the day of the Passover and of Pentecost, which is properly a feast day.

" And Jeremiah:

"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.