Книга пророка Иеремии, Глава 10, стих 11. Толкования стиха

GOD ALONE MADE THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH. AMBROSE: But if heretics deny that either the heavens or the earth were made by you, O Lord, let them take heed of the abyss into which they are hurling themselves by their own madness. The prophet writes, “Perish the gods that have not made heaven and earth.” Shall he then perish, O Arian, who had found and saved that which had perished? ON THE CHRISTIAN FAITH 4.4.48.

GOD’S WISDOM SURPASSES ALL HUMAN KNOWING. AMBROSE: “Who has understood the sense of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor or has taught him?” Of him we also read elsewhere: “For he holds the circuit of the earth and made the earth as nothing.” And Jeremiah says, “The gods that have not made heaven and earth will perish from the earth and from among those places that are under heaven. He that made the earth by his power and prepared the world by his wisdom and stretched out the heavens at his knowledge and a multitude of waters in the heaven.” And he adds, “Humankind is become a fool for knowledge.” How can one who pursues the corruptible things of the world and thinks that from these things he can comprehend the truth of divine nature not become a fool as he makes use of the artifices of sophistry? SIX DAYS OF CREATION 1.3.9.

Так скажите же им: боги, которые не сотворили неба и земли, пусть исчезнут с земли и из поднебесной. Так должно говорить богам рукотворенным, ибо они не сотворили ни неба, ни земли. Сотрудники же Христа называются богами учением цер­ковным, они значительною частию созидают дом Гос­подень.

ONLY GOD IS GOD. CHRYSOSTOM: Next, he adduces what indeed is the greatest token of divinity, “of whom are all things.” For this implies also that those others are not gods. For it is said, “Let the gods who made not the heaven and the earth perish.” Then he adds at the end nothing less than this, “and we to him.” For when he says, “of whom are all things,” he means the creation and the bringing of things out of nothing into existence. HOMILIES ON 1 CORINTHIANS 20.5.

THE EMPTINESS OF IDOLS. CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA: Jeremiah the prophet, gifted with consummate wisdom, or rather the Holy Spirit in Jeremiah, exhibits God. “Am I a God at hand,” he says, “and not a God afar off? Can a person hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? Do I not fill heaven and earth? declares the Lord.” . . . For “the Lord who created the earth by his power,” as Jeremiah says, “has raised up the world by his wisdom.” For wisdom, which is his word, raises us up to the truth. It raises us who have fallen prostrate before idols. And this raising through the word is itself the first resurrection from our fall. EXHORTATION TO THE GREEKS 8.

Величие Иеговы

В противоположность ничтожеству идолов пророк изображает величие Иеговы, пред которым все идолы падают.