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Origen of Alexandria
Ante-Nicene · to AD 325
2,651 passages across 61 books of the Bible · Who was this?
On Ezekiel
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Ezekiel 16:3
Which of the cities in the world were so elevated and so deep in knowledge as the city of God?
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Ezekiel 16:3
If so many things are said in Jerusalem about which such great and wonderful things are written that have been promised to her, what future is there for unhappy me, if I sin? Who will I have for a father, who will I have for a mother?
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Ezekiel 16:4
It is a great work to be rubbed with salt. If we are seasoned with salt, we are full of grace.
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Ezekiel 16:4
Not everyone is washed for salvation. We who have received the grace of baptism in the name of Christ are washed, but I do not know who is washed for salvation.
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Ezekiel 16:4
To take an example from human relationships, if the Holy Spirit gives, then I travel on to Jesus Christ and God the Father.
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Ezekiel 16:4
It is quite difficult that he who is washed should be washed in order to be saved. Listen, catechumens, listen, and from what is said, prepare yourselves, while you are catechumens, while you are not yet baptized, and come to the bath and be baptized for salvation. Do not be so baptized that you are washed but not for salvation.
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Ezekiel 16:4
The soul that is reborn is barely out of the bath before being enveloped with towels.
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Ezekiel 16:6
But see the mercy of God, see his extraordinary goodness. Even though Jerusalem was thrown into the open field, he does not look down on it as thrown out forever, he does not leave it in a state of perversion as entirely forgotten, as not in the end to lift up the fallen. You were thrown out, but I still return to you; my visit is not lacking after your ruin.”
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Ezekiel 16:8
Let us pray that the mercy of God will come on us and wash away the blood from our souls.
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Ezekiel 16:8
When we are of a greater age and can therefore sin, angels look for a chance to influence us, and that is as true of the angels of God as it is of the angels of Satan.
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Ezekiel 16:12
Almighty God, grant to us to be worthy of the crown and glory on our head.
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Ezekiel 16:12
We are not only anointed with this oil, but we also live.
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Ezekiel 16:17
The golden and silver vase, the censers, the cups and the rest of that kind we have in the holy Scriptures. But when we turn the meaning of Scripture into another that is contrary to the truth, we kindle the divine words and turn the things of God into other images.
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Ezekiel 16:18
Whoever is born in the teaching of heretics and has taken these principles for his own faith is a child of Jerusalem the fornicator and sinner.
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Ezekiel 16:18
To me who preaches the gospel in the church, the devil always stretches out a noose, in order to confuse the whole church with my conduct.
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Ezekiel 16:18
We do not imitate anyone, but if we want to imitate anyone, we should imitate Jesus Christ.
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Ezekiel 16:18
Incense and oil are the prayer that is offered to God with understanding and in which God delights.
EXCERPTS ON EZEKIEL 16:18
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Ezekiel 16:18
These various clothes and beautiful garments that God has bestowed on us, if we cut them up and rip them and surround them with false teaching to deceive human beings, there is no doubt that we are covering idols with different clothing.
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Ezekiel 16:23
Their bodies are corrupted, and the soul is wounded.
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Ezekiel 16:25
Possessing these things, she is of great beauty, but she is corrupted by the divisions of heretics and foreign religious systems.