Holy Scripture

Jeremiah 3:8

A church father on this verse
“The very wording of the passage that has been read has something obscure in it, which must first be understood; and after this, if God grants it, we shall come to know his mystical intent. Now he wants us to know this: that, as is written in the books of Kingdoms, the people were divided in the times of Rehoboam into…”
Origen of Alexandria, 3th c. — HOMILIES ON JEREMIAH 4

Source: Septuagint

Original

8And I saw that (for all the sins of which she was convicted, wherein the house of Israel committed adultery, and I put her away, and gave into her hands a bill of divorcement), yet faithless Judah feared not, but went and herself also committed fornication.

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6And the Lord said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen what things the house of Israel has done to me? they have gone on every high mountain, and under every shady tree, and have committed fornication there.

7And I said after she had committed all these acts of fornication, Turn again to me. Yet she returned not. And faithless Judah saw her faithlessness.

— Jeremiah 3:8 —

9And her fornication was nothing accounted of; and she committed adultery with wood and stone.

10And for all these things faithless Judah turned not to me with all her heart, but falsely.

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