“With what conscience can the overseer of souls avail himself among other people of his pastoral dignity, while engaged himself in the earthly cares that it was his duty to reprehend in others? And this indeed is what the Lord, in the wrath of just retribution, menaced through the prophet, saying, "And there shall be l…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Pastoral Rule, Part 2, Chapter 7
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1How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.
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— Lamentations 4:1 —
2The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
3Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.