Holy Scripture
Jeremiah 18:5
A church father on this verse
“"And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: Shall I not be able to do to you as the potter, O house of Israel? says the Lord." Each one understands the things written according to his ability, the one more superficially, as though drawing his understanding from them from a surface spring, the other more deeply, as o…”
Source: Septuagint
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5And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
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3So I went down to the potter’s house, and behold, he was making a vessel on the stones.
4And the vessel which he was making with his hands fell: so he made it again another vessel, as it seemed good to him to make it.
— Jeremiah 18:5 —
6Shall I not be able, O house of Israel, to do to you as this potter? behold, as the clay of the potter are ye in my hands.
7If I shall pronounce a decree upon a nation, or upon a kingdom, to cut them off, and to destroy them;