Книга пророка Иеремии, Глава 14, стих 1. Толкования стиха

Слово Господне, бывшее к Ие­ремии о словах засухи. Гневу Божию соответствует все; поэтому и солнце над грешниками заходит в пол­день, и луна и звезды и прочие светила не дают света своего (Ам. 8). Должно думать, что во время осады не было дождя, так что осажденные терпели недостаток в воде. Ибо город пользуется только одним источником Силоамским, и то не постоянно; и даже до настоящего времени бездождие производит не только недостаток плодов, но и недостаток воды для питья.

THE WORD CAME TO THE PROPHETS. ORIGEN: It will serve us to remember that what is called the Word came to certain persons, as “the word of the Lord which came to Hosea, the son of Beeri,” and “the word which came to Isaiah, the son of Amoz, concerning Judah and concerning Jerusalem,” and “the word that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.” We must inquire how this Word came to Hosea, and how it came also to Isaiah the son of Amoz, and again to Jeremiah concerning the drought. The comparison may enable us to find out how the Word was with God. We will generalize by simply looking at what the prophets said, as if that were the Word of the Lord or the Word that came to them. May it not be . . . that . . . the Son, the Word, of whom we are now theologizing, came to Hosea, sent to him by the Father, historically, that is to say, to the son of Beeri, the prophet Hosea. . . . Similarly the Word comes also to Isaiah, teaching the things that are coming on Judea and Jerusalem in the last days. So also it comes to Jeremiah lifted up by a divine elation. . . . Thus to find out what is meant by the phrase “the Word was with God,” we have adduced the words used about the prophets, how he came to Hosea, to Isaiah, to Jeremiah. . . . We have to add that in his coming to the prophets he illuminates the prophets with the light of knowledge, causing them to see things that had been before them but that they had not understood until then. COMMENTARY ON THE GOSPEL OF JOHN 2.1.