Jeremiah 3:1 — text, Greek, lexicon

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Il dit: Lorsqu'un homme répudie sa femme, Qu'elle le quitte et devient la femme d'un autre, Cet homme retourne-t-il encore vers elle? Le pays même ne serait-il pas souillé? Et toi, tu t'es prostituée à de nombreux amants, Et tu reviendrais à moi! dit l'Eternel.

KJV

They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD.

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Jeremiah 3:1–55 verses

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Patristic reading

Origen
Fragmenta In Lamentationes (In Catenis de Prophetis)
ν σὴν αὐτοῖς ἐπενεχθεῖσαν ὀργήν. δι΄ ὡν γὰρ ἥμαρτον, πολλοὶ καὶ δυνατοὶ γεγόνασιν οἱ ἐχθροί. Klagel. Jerem. 3, 1. Δεινὰ συνέβη τῷ προφήτῃ καὶ πρὶν ἁλῶναι τὴν πόλιν καὶ ταύτης ἑαλωκυίας. διὸ στοιχειώσεως ἑτέρας κατάρχων, ἐαυτὸν ἀποδύρεται, πτωχείαν ὁρῶν καὶ ἐρημίαν τῆς πόλεως διὰ…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
seem that the Church ought in all cases to receive those who return from heresy. For it is written ( Jer. 3:1 ) in the person of the Lord: "Thou hast prostituted thyself to many lovers; nevertheless return to Me saith the Lord." Now the sentence of the Church is God's sentence, a…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
against the prescription of the Divine order, it will be called spiritual fornication, according to Jer. 3:1 , "But thou hast prostituted thyself to many lovers." Taking chastity in this sense, it is a general virtue, because every virtue withdraws the human mind from delighting…

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