TRV
Origen of Alexandria
Ante-Nicene · to AD 325
2,651 passages across 61 books of the Bible · Who was this?
On Ezekiel
20 of 120-
Ezekiel 16:26
You see that she is handed over to the souls of strangers, she who is unworthy to practice the law and the words of God.
-
Ezekiel 16:28
When God makes covenants with us and we consent to them, we are blessed. But when we prostitute ourselves to the spirits of evil, then we turn the covenants of God into the land of Canaan, and we make a pact with her.
-
Ezekiel 16:30
There is no doubt that the word of the orator provokes the hero to worse things when a heretic builds up his hero in the perversions of heresy by what he says.
-
Ezekiel 16:30
If you understand fornication of the flesh and the soul and the spirit, and if you see someone fornicating in them, you will also see Jerusalem fornicating herself three times.
-
Ezekiel 16:30
As the law is not made for the just but for the lawless and those who are not subjected to God, so the teaching that warns us away from fornication does not become chaste but is for the lawless and the fornicators and the disobedient.
-
Ezekiel 16:30
Those who have not completely gone away from religion but are conquered by sin and who want their sin to be hidden behave exactly like a prostitute who has been insulted.
-
Ezekiel 16:31
Ecclesiastics who are leaders in the church build the house of God, the church, in their own way of life as well as those of their faithful, and their work is the building of God.
-
Ezekiel 16:33
The husband of the soul is the word of God, a spouse truly loving, who has given her chastity, justice and all the other gifts.
-
Ezekiel 16:42
If you do not recover your senses when you have been chastised, if you are not corrected when you have been reproved, if you despise when you are beaten, you must realize that if you go on continually sinning his jealousy will depart from you and that which is said to Jerusalem by the prophet Ezekiel will be said to you: “Therefore my jealousy will depart from you, and I will no longer be angry with you.” Behold the mercy and piety of the good God.… This is terrible! This is the end when we are no longer reproached for sins, when we offend and are no longer corrected. For then, when we have exceeded the measure of sinning “the jealous God” turns his jealousy away from us, as he said above, or my jealousy will be removed from you, and I will no longer be angry over you.
-
Ezekiel 16:45
To put it more clearly, the origin of all evils is the multitude, but the origin of good things is to retire from the crowd and to confine oneself to the solitary life.
-
Ezekiel 16:45
Where there are sins, where there are multitudes of people, there are schisms, there are heresies, there are dissensions. But where there is virtue, there is unity, union, from which the single heart and spirit of all believers were made.
-
Ezekiel 16:45
As the Father and Son are one, so those who have one Spirit are brought together in unity.
-
Ezekiel 16:46
Virtue makes me to have Christ as my brother, so that I may be both good and well-mannered.
-
Ezekiel 16:46
This is to despise Zion and to trust in the mountain of Samaria. For if we ecclesiastics sin, heretics are certainly not strangers to us in the perversion of their teaching.
-
Ezekiel 16:46
What are these two sisters of Jerusalem the sinner? Schism and division of the people created Samaria.
-
Ezekiel 16:49
Often having a fullness and an abundance of bread is the cause of arrogance. But often the sin of pride also arises over spiritual gifts, and discernment is needed to distinguish the one from the other.
-
Ezekiel 16:49
To know that sins are unequal you only have to look at the teaching of the Scriptures, which will leave you in no doubt.
-
Ezekiel 16:49
What then is the sin most great of all sins? It is the one for which the devil fell.… Pride is greater than all sins, and the principal sin of the devil.… Often the reason for pride is for him who disregards having an ecclesiastical dignity.
-
Ezekiel 16:51
My Lord Jesus Christ is justified according to the dispensation of the flesh that he purified for our salvation, by Abraham, by Isaac, by Jacob and by the rest of the prophets.
-
Ezekiel 16:51
Before Christ it was not possible for the light of the righteous to shine.