Cassiodorus

In his own words on Jeremiah

• Jeremiah 23:12

  Let their way become dark and slippery, and let the angel of the Lord pursue them. He demanded that the situation of sinners be wholly arduous, so that their way, which seems to them clear and firm as they linger pleasurably on it, may become dark and slippery so that they cannot stand on it any longer. As the prophet Jeremiah says, "Therefore their way has become slippery in the dark. They shall be thrown down and fall on it." But if they decide to linger further in their evil ways, he asks that the Lord's power pursue them, so that he may not cause them to cling to their sins as they hasten to aspire after their own destruction. What a blessed proliferation of so many obstacles! How vehement is the prayer in this verse that the most salutary opposition is afforded them!

  EXPLANATION OF THE PSALMS 6

• Jeremiah 33:25

  "But the counsel of the Lord stands forever. The thoughts of his heart are for all time." Just as he said that the debased plans of people are to be made vain, so now he says that the dispositions of the Lord remain forever. While the sinner and the mortal person experience transient things, the eternal Lord established what will never be blameworthy. As Isaiah says, "All my counsel shall be enduring, and all that I meditated I shall achieve." Jeremiah too says the same thing: "If my covenant were not under guard day and night, I should not have issued the laws of heaven and earth."

  EXPLANATION OF THE PSALMS 32:11