67.  However, to avoid unreasonably prolonging my discourse, by an enumeration of all the prophets, and of the words of them all, I will mention but one more, who was known before he was formed, and sanctified from the womb,208    Jer. i. 5. Jeremiah:  and will pass over the rest.  He longs for water over his head, and a fountain of tears for his eyes, that he may adequately weep for Israel;209    Ib. ix. 1. and no less does he bewail the depravity of its rulers.

ΞΖʹ. Ἀλλ' ἵνα μὴ, τὰ πάντων καὶ πάντας ἀπαριθμούμενος τοὺς προφήτας, μακρὸν ἀποτείνω λόγον, ἑνὸς ἐπιμνησθεὶς ἔτι τοῦ πρὸ τῆς πλάσεως ἐγνωσμένου, καὶ ἐκ μήτρας ἡγιασμένου (Ἱερεμίας ἦν οὗτος), τοὺς λοιποὺς ὑπερβήσομαι. Ζητεῖ μὲν οὗτος ὑπὲρ κεφαλῆς ὕδωρ, καὶ τοῖς ὀφθαλμοῖς πηγὴν δακρύων, ἵνα κλαύσῃ πρὸς ἀξίαν τὸν Ἰσραήλ: ὀδύρεται δὲ οὐχ ἧττον καὶ τῶν προεστώτων τὴν μοχθηρίαν.