Jeremiah 2:18
Douay-Rheims
And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the troubled water? And what hast thou to do with the way of the Assyrians, to drink the water of the river?
Augustine of Hippo
If we are not false servants of God, if there is in us a spark of that fire whereby "charity seeks not its own," we certainly should make our good works appear, not only before God but even before people, for fear that, while drinking of quiet waters in our own conscience, we should be constrained by careless feet to drive the sheep of the Lord to drink the troubled waters.
Source details
A.D. 430 · on Jer 2:18 (LETTER 125)
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.