Книга пророка Иеремии, Глава 1, стих 9. Толкования стиха

INSPIRATION. CHRYSOSTOM: I say this, for Isaiah said, “The Lord has given me a learned tongue that I should know when I ought to speak a word.” Furthermore, what of Jeremiah? When he was sent, he then was inspired by God. And what of Ezekiel? For, when he had eaten the chapter of the book, he then spoke prophetically. HOMILIES ON THE GOSPEL OF JOHN 69.

THE WORD OF GOD IS AS FIRE. ORIGEN: In sacred language God is called a fire. For instance, Scripture says, “Our God is a consuming fire.” It also speaks as follows concerning the substance of the angels when it says, “He makes his angels spirits and his ministers a burning fire.” In another place, “The angel of the Lord appeared in a flame of fire in the bush.” We have, moreover, received a commandment to be “fervent in spirit,” which undoubtedly means that the Word of God is hot and fiery. The prophet Jeremiah also hears from him who gave him his answer, “Behold, I have put my words into your mouth like a fire.” Since God, then, is a fire, and the angels a flame of fire and all the saints are fervent in spirit, so, on the contrary, those who have fallen away from the love of God are undoubtedly said to have cooled in their affection for him and to have become cold. For the Lord also says that “because iniquity has grown, the love of many will grow cold.” ON FIRST PRINCIPLES 2.8.3.

THE LORD PROVIDES THE WORDS. ORIGEN: We pray that words may be given us, as it is written in the book of Jeremiah that the Lord said to the prophet: “Behold, I have put my words in your mouth as fire. See, I have set you this day over the nations, and over the kingdoms, to root out and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, and to build and to plant.” AGAINST CELSUS 4.1.

Стихи 9–10 – прикосновение руки Господней к устам пророка – символическое действие, означающее, что Господь сообщает ему дар слова и делает его вестником Своей воли, так что уста пророка сделались как бы устами Божиими. Подобное этому символическое действие было и с пророком Исаией при его призвании (Ис.6:7).

«Я поставил тебя в сей день над народами и царствами, чтобы искоренять и разорять, губить и разрушать, созидать и насаждать» (10-й стих) – в этом стихе говорится, что отныне Иеремия, его слово есть орудие Верховного Судии Бога. Он должен предвозвещать судьбы евреев и язычников.

GOD’S WORDS ENTER THE PROPHET’S MOUTH. TERTULLIAN: The Scripture narrative goes on to explain in a popular manner that “they did not understand that he spoke to them about the Father,” although they ought certainly to have known that the Father’s words were uttered in the Son because they read in Jeremiah, “And the Lord said to me, ‘Behold, I have put my words in your mouth.’” AGAINST PRAXEAS 22.

PROPHETS SERVE THE CHURCH. THEOPHILUS OF ALEXANDRIA: The Lord has said to his prophet, “See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms to root out and to pull down and to destroy and . . . to build and to plant.” In every age he bestows the same grace on his church, that his body may be preserved intact and that the poison of heretical opinions may nowhere prevail over it. And now also do we see the words fulfilled. LETTER 90, TO EPIPHANIUS.