Jeremiah 16:2

Verse 2. Place. It was going to be destroyed, and the cares of a family might interrupt the prophet. The Fathers believe that Jeremias never married, (see Saint Jerome in Calmet. xxii. Isidor.) which was then a rare example. Calmet.—He always lived a single life, and not only in time of tribulation. Saint Jerome c. Jov. 1. Worthington.—The Church enforces this law of God for her sacred ministers, in subdeacons and the higher orders. Saint Paul shews the propriety of such a regulation, (1 Corinthians 7) which innovators deem unnatural and tyrannical. How then could God enforce it once? With his grace we may observe celibacy like Jeremias. Bible.