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Jeremiah 14:10

Eastern Fathers

Athanasius of Alexandria

Hence it is that they are always writing, and always altering their own previous statements, and thus they shew an uncertain faith, or rather a manifest unbelief and perverseness. And this, it appears to me, must needs be the case with them; for since, having fallen away from the truth, and desiring to overthrow that sound confession of faith which was drawn up at Nicaea, they have, in the language of Scripture, `loved to wander, and have not refrained their feet;' therefore, like Jerusalem of old, they labour and toil in their …

Letter To The Bishops Of Egypt 1:6 ↗

Western Saints

Jerome

Thus says the Lord to this people, because they loved (or loved to) move their feet and did not rest (or did not spare (Alternative reading: spared)) and did not please the Lord (or and God did not please (Alternative reading: was pleased)) in them; now their iniquities will be remembered, and their sins will be visited. When the people say: why have you become a stranger, a traveler, and a wanderer, to forsake your own dwelling? The Lord answers his former people: Do you want to know the reason? …

Commentary on Jeremiah ↗