Anf-01 ii.ii.xiii Pg 2
Jer. ix. 23, 24; 1 Cor. i. 31; 2 Cor. x. 17.
), being especially mindful of the words of the Lord Jesus which He spake, teaching us meekness and long-suffering. For thus He spoke: “Be ye merciful, that ye may obtain mercy; forgive, that it may be forgiven to you; as ye do, so shall it be done unto you; as ye judge, so shall ye be judged; as ye are kind, so shall kindness be shown to you; with what measure ye mete, with the same it shall be measured to you.”56 56
Anf-01 ix.vi.xviii Pg 16
Jer. ix. 24.
He adds, “For in these things I delight, says the Lord,” but not in sacrifices, nor in holocausts, nor in oblations. For the people did not receive these precepts as of primary importance (principaliter), but as secondary, and for the reason already alleged, as Isaiah again says: “Thou hast not [brought to] Me the sheep of thy holocaust, nor in thy sacrifices hast thou glorified Me: thou hast not served Me in sacrifices, nor in [the matter of] frankincense hast thou done anything laboriously; neither hast thou bought for Me incense with money, nor have I desired the fat of thy sacrifices; but thou hast stood before Me in thy sins and in thine iniquities.”4020 4020
Anf-02 vi.iv.i.xi Pg 3.1
Anf-03 v.iv.v.xv Pg 36
Jer. ix. 23, 24.
Similarly against the daughters of Sion does He inveigh by Isaiah, when they were haughty through their pomp and the abundance of their riches,4016 4016
Anf-03 v.iv.vi.v Pg 42
By Jeremiah, chap. ix. 23, 24.
Unless, forsooth, the Creator enjoined us to glory in the god of Marcion.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 11
VERSE (30) - :16-18; 12:1,11 Pr 25:27; 27:2 Jer 9:23,24
