Anf-01 viii.iv.cxl Pg 2
Jer. ii. 13.
But they are cisterns broken, and holding no water, which your own teachers have digged, as the Scripture also expressly asserts, ‘teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.’2483 2483
Anf-01 ix.iv.xxv Pg 6
Jer. ii. 13.
out of earthly trenches, and drink putrid water out of the mire, fleeing from the faith of the Church lest they be convicted; and rejecting the Spirit, that they may not be instructed.
Anf-02 vi.iii.i.ix Pg 23.1
Anf-03 iv.ix.xiii Pg 32
ὑδατος ζωῆς in the LXX. here (ed. Tischendorf, who quotes the Cod. Alex. as reading, however, ὑδατος ζῶντος). Comp. Rev. xxii. 1, 17, and xxi. 6; John vii. 37–39. (The reference, it will be seen, is still to Jer. ii. 10–13; but the writer has mixed up words of Amos therewith.)
and they have digged for themselves worn-out tanks, which will not be able to contain water.” Undoubtedly, by not receiving Christ, the “fount of water of life,” they have begun to have “worn-out tanks,” that is, synagogues for the use of the “dispersions of the Gentiles,”1411 1411
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 2
VERSE (8) - 1Sa 12:21 2Ki 17:15 Ps 31:6 Jer 2:13; 10:8,14,15; 16:19
