Книга пророка Иеремии 1 глава 5 стих

THE CALLING. AUGUSTINE: Moreover, this calling, which works through the opportune circumstances of history, whether this calling is in individuals or in peoples or in humankind itself, comes from a decree both lofty and profound. To this relates the following passage: “In the womb have I sanctified you.” ON EIGHTY-THREE VARIED QUESTIONS 68.6.

INCARNATION AND THE TWO NATURES IN CHRIST. AMBROSE: “The bosom of the Father” is to be understood in a spiritual sense, as a kind of innermost dwelling of the Father’s love and of his nature, in which the Son always dwells. Even so, the Father’s womb is the spiritual womb of an inner sanctuary, from which the Son has proceeded just as from a generative womb. . . . The Father speaks of that womb through the prophet Jeremiah: “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you.” Therefore, the prophet showed that there was a twofold nature in Christ, the divine and the fleshly, the former from the Father, the latter from a virgin, but in such a way that Christ was not deprived of his divinity when he was born from a virgin and was in the body. ON THE PATRIARCHS 11.51.

CHRIST’S PREEXISTENCE. AMBROSE: To show them, however, the weakness and transparency of their objection, though it has no real relation to any truth, divine or human, I will prove to them that people have existed before they were born. Let them show that Jacob had not been appointed and ordained, even before he was born. While yet hidden in the secret chamber of his mother’s womb, he supplanted his brother. Let them show that Jeremiah had not likewise been so, before his birth, “Before I formed you in your mother’s womb, I knew you; and before you came forth from the belly, I sanctified you, and appointed you for a prophet amongst the nations.” . . . What do you Arians mean by your principle that “before he was begotten he did not exist”? Was the Father engaged for some time in conception, so that certain epochs passed away before the Son was begotten? ON THE CHRISTIAN FAITH 4.9.113, 116.

AGAINST THE ARIANS. ATHANASIUS: Concerning Jeremiah, God says, “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you.” . . . If such terms are used in Scripture of things created, but the term ever is used of the Word, then it follows, O enemies of God, that the Son did not come out of nothing, nor is he to be numbered at all among created things, but he is the Father’s image and eternal word, never having not existed, but never existing as the eternal radiance. DISCOURSES AGAINST THE ARIANS 1.4.13.

Слово Господне – каким языком говорит? Пользуется ли оно алфавитом, чернилами, тростью, веянием ангельских крыл или иными звуковыми или смысловыми средствами, до которых мы еще не додумались? Бог говорит с людьми «извещениями сердца» (Евр. 10:22). Говоря, Он выходит из того, что Он есть в Себе, в то, что Он есть для нас. Для нас Он – любовь, которой Он мыслит и облекает мысли плотью. Разве не подразумевает пророк, что любовь Божия и мысль‑речь о возникновении человека – одно? Образование человека в утробе и освящение его – единый акт как познания‑речи‑любви. «Не просто человека, но богодухновенного пророка, доносящего слово Господне», – возразят нам. Но пророк слышит лучше то, к чему остальные глухи, ибо откровение целостно, истина открывается людям с разной полнотой, но затрагивает всех.

+++Владимир Зелинский прот. Будьте, как дети. Теофания детства. Евангелие для народа ребенка. Речь Божия в творении человека. Почему новорожденный – это одно из откровений Божьих++

CONSECRATED IN THE WOMB. JEROME: It was not that Jeremiah existed before he was conceived, as some heretics suppose, but that the Lord foreknew Jeremiah to be coming, the Lord to whom what does not yet exist is already present, in accordance with what the apostle said of him: “who calls that which is not as though it were.” But we also ought to understand Jeremiah’s consecration in the womb according to the apostle’s word: “When it pleased him, he set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by his grace, to reveal his Son in me, that I might proclaim him to the nations.” John the Baptist similarly was consecrated in the womb, where he received the Holy Spirit and leaped and spoke through his mother’s mouth. Furthermore, when the Lord says, “I appointed you a prophet to the nations,” he wants it to be understood that we will eventually read in him the prophet who will prophesy not only to Jerusalem but also to a multitude in the entire company of nations. Some understand this as referring to the Savior, who was himself a prophet to the nations and called all peoples through the apostles. For it is certainly true of him that before he was formed in the virginal womb of his mother and before he came forth from her, he was consecrated in the womb and was known to the Father, he, indeed, who is always in the Father and the Father always in him. SIX BOOKS ON JEREMIAH 1.2.1-3.

Если применяющие к себе эти слова истиннные пророки, то пусть представят для доказательства чудесныя события, какия представляли пророки Бога Вышняго: Ин. 5:36; Втор. 18:21-22; Ис. 41:21-22. Но так как доказательств этих они представить не могут, то ясно, что они суть самозванные пророки, которых обличает Слово Божие: Мф. 7:15. 21—23; Иерем. 14, 14; Иезек. 13, 3—6; Ис. 15:8-9.

THE WORD OF GOD FORMS US IN THE WOMB. IRENAEUS: The Word of God is the one who forms us in the womb, as he says to Jeremiah, “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you came forth from the belly, I sanctified you and appointed you to be a prophet among the nations.” And Paul, too, says this in the same way, “But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, that I might declare him among the nations.” AGAINST HERESIES 5.15.3.

GOD GIVES AND FORMS THE FLESH OF HUMANITY. CYRIL OF JERUSALEM: He is not ashamed to assume flesh, who is the creator of those very parts. Who tells us this? The Lord said to Jeremiah: “Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you. Before you came forth out of the womb, I made you holy.” If, then, in making humanity he was not ashamed of the contact, was he ashamed in making for his own sake the holy flesh, the veil of his Godhead? It is God who even now creates children in the womb, as it is written in Job, “Didn’t you pour me out as milk and curdled me like cheese? You have clothed me with skin and flesh and have knit me together with bones and sinews.” There is nothing polluted in the human frame unless a person defiles it with fornication and adultery. God, who made Adam, also made Eve. Both male and female were formed by God’s hands. None of the parts of the body as formed from the beginning are polluted. CATECHETICAL LECTURES 12.26.

THE TWOFOLD BIRTH OF CHRIST. LACTANTIUS: In the first place we testify that he was born twice: first, in the spirit, later in the flesh. It is said in Jeremiah, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you.” And again, “who was blessed before he was born,” which happened to no other besides Christ. DIVINE INSTITUTES 4.8.

POWER OF BAPTISM. LEO THE GREAT: Through the Holy Spirit we are reborn the children of promise, not in the mother’s womb but in the power of baptism. For this reason David, who certainly was a son of promise, says to God, “Your hands have made and fashioned me.” And to Jeremiah the Lord says, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you.” LETTER 15.10.

JEREMIAH AND JOHN IN THE WOMB. MAXIMUS OF TURIN: This, too, seems unworthy to pass over in silence in praise of John. Although he was not yet born, yet already he prophesies and, while still in the enclosure of his mother’s womb, confesses the coming of Christ with movements of joy since he could not do so with his voice. . . . In this regard I think that the prophetic phrase is appropriate that says, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you.” We ought not to marvel that after he was put in prison by Herod, from his confinement he continued to announce Christ to his disciples, when even confined in the womb he preached the same Lord by his movements. SERMON 5.4.

GOD’S GIFT OF CHILDREN. METHODIUS: So, if God still forms human beings, shall we not be guilty of audacity if we think of the generation of children as something offensive when even the Almighty is not ashamed to make use of them in working with his undefiled hands. BANQUET OF THE TEN VIRGINS 2.2.

GOD CARES FOR THE WEAK AND FRAIL. ORIGEN: We forget that the words “Let us make man according to our image and according to our likeness”apply to each person. When we fail to remember the one who formed a person in the womb, and formed all people’s hearts individually and understands all their works, we do not perceive that God is a helper of those who are lowly and inferior, a protector of the weak, a provider of shelter of those who have been given up in despair and Savior of those who have been given up as hopeless. COMMENTARY ON THE GOSPEL OF JOHN 13.167-68.

Стихи 4–5 говорят, что Иеремия был призван на свое высокое служение Самим Богом и предопределен к нему еще до своего рождения.

GOD CREATES SOUL AND BODY IN THE WOMB. TERTULLIAN: Read the word of God that was spoken to Jeremiah, “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you.” God not only forms us in the womb; he also breathes on us as he did at the first creation, when “the Lord God formed man and breathed into him the breath of life.” And God could not have known a person in the womb, except in his entire nature: “And before you came forth out of the womb, I sanctified you.” Well, was it then a dead body at that early stage? Certainly not. For “God is not the God of the dead but of the living.” ON THE SOUL 26.

LIFE AT THE EMBRYONIC STAGE. TERTULLIAN: The embryo therefore becomes a human being in the womb from the moment that its form is completed. The law of Moses, indeed, punishes with due penalties the one who shall cause an abortion, inasmuch as there exists already the rudiment of a human being that has imputed to it even now the condition of life and death, since it is already liable to the issues of both, although, by living still in the mother, it for the most part shares its own state with the mother. ON THE SOUL 37.

CONSECRATED FROM THE WOMB. THEODORET OF CYR: God’s choice of Jeremiah was not without basis: knowledge preceded it. Notice it says that God had knowledge and then he consecrated, for he knows everything before it happens. Now, he employed the word consecrated, meaning “he appointed.” Then God also mentions the task for which he selected him: “I appointed you as prophet to the nations.” Thus, he prophesies not only concerning the fortunes of the Jews but also the other nations. “I replied, O Lord and Master that you are, see, I do not know how to speak, because I am a child.” The prophet recognized the one addressing him. This is why he called him by a title having to do with lordship. When the mighty Moses was once speaking, remember, and wanted to learn the divine name, the Lord said, “I am the one who is.” He imitates Moses’ timidity by saying youth is not up to prophesying. The Lord, however, urges him not to put forward the excuse of youthfulness but to do as he is told. ON JEREMIAH 1.1.4-6.