Gregory of Nazianzus

Nicene & Post-Nicene · AD 325–500

298 passages across 41 books of the Bible · Who was this?

On Ezekiel

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  1. Ezekiel 1:1
    What would you say of Isaiah or Ezekiel, who was an eyewitness of very great mysteries, and of the other prophets: for one of these saw the Lord of Sabaoth sitting on the throne of glory and encircled and praised by the six-winged seraphim, and was himself purged by the live coal and equipped for his prophetic office; and the other describes the cherubic chariot of God, and the throne on them, and the firmament over it, and him that showed himself in the firmament, and voices and forces and deeds. And whether this was an appearance by day, only visible to saints, or an unerring vision of the night, or an impression on the mind holding converse with the future as if it were the present or some other ineffable form of prophecy, I cannot say; the God of the prophets knows, and they know who are thus inspired.

    ON THEOLOGY, THEOLOGICAL ORATION 2(28).19

  2. Ezekiel 14:14
    Who will cry aloud, spare your people, O Lord, and do not give your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them: what Noah and Job and Daniel, who are reckoned together as men of prayer, will pray for us, that we may have a slight respite from warfare, and recover ourselves, and recognize one another for a while and no longer, instead of being a united Israel, be Judah and Israel, Rehoboam and Jeroboam, Jerusalem and Samaria, in turn delivered up because of our sins, and in turn lamented?

    IN DEFENSE OF HIS FLIGHT TO PONTUS, ORATION 2:89

  3. Ezekiel 33:2
    How are we affected by Ezekiel, the beholder and expositor of the mighty mysteries and visions? By his injunction to the watchmen not to keep silence concerning vice and the sword impending over it, a course that would profit neither themselves nor the sinners, but rather to keep watch and forewarn and thus benefit at any rate those who gave warning, if not both those who spoke and those who heard.

    IN DEFENSE OF HIS FLIGHT TO PONTUS, ORATION 2:64

  4. Ezekiel 34:12
    He is shepherd to shepherds and a guide to guides: that we may feed his flock with knowledge, not with the instruments of a foolish shepherd.

    IN DEFENSE OF HIS FLIGHT TO PONTUS, ORATION 2:117

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