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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 16:52
The more we come very near to God the more we come near the beatitude; and when we have sinned, we shall be far from it and very near terrible and very great punishments.
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Ezekiel 16:52
O you who are subject to pain, do not go into exile with mourning.
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Ezekiel 16:52
It is an infamy to be separated from the people of God and from the church; it is a dishonor in the church to leave the bench of presbyters, to be expelled from the rank of the diaconate.
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Ezekiel 16:52
If we justify providence, we cleanse our disgrace; but if we do not receive the judgments of God, we will multiply our disgrace.
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Ezekiel 16:52
The person who is “very small” deserves mercy more quickly.
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Ezekiel 16:53
Anger is something other than God himself, so that it is never part of him, nor does he share in it in any way.
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Ezekiel 16:54
It is plain that the just and good God of the law and the gospels is one and the same and that he does good with justice and punishes in kindness, since neither goodness without justice nor justice without goodness can describe the dignity of the divine nature.
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Ezekiel 16:61
Let us pray with all our heart that God would grant us to fight for truth to the very end of our mind and body.
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Ezekiel 16:61
After receiving the price of my sins and being re-established, and the covenant made with me, then do I understand my evil deeds, and I am confounded, and within I punish myself.
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Ezekiel 17:3
He came to that Lebanon, which is the church, where the offerings of God and the incense of his prayers are celebrated, that great true evil, Nebuchadnezzar, that is, the devil, and he sees it.
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Ezekiel 17:6
As long as it was on holy ground, the vine was huge; but when it was taken to the land of sinners, it was made infirm and small.
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Ezekiel 17:7
Another crowd was taken by him, and it became a vine, less vigorous than it was when it was in the vineyard of God and on holy ground, where the sacrifices of God are celebrated, but it was transferred to Babylon as a weak vine.
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Ezekiel 17:8
One who was condemned by God does not escape his sentence and does not want to change the will of he who judges him, but he will bear it with all patience until God frees the one who he has condemned.
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Ezekiel 17:8
When the association of such different natures is made in faith in Christ, the lion will no longer be impure, and all the animals called impure in the law of God will receive the purity of their former condition.
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Ezekiel 17:12
If we who appear to stand over the church have sinned and given place to the devil against the teaching of Paul when he says “do not give any place to the devil,” in the same way the faults committed at Jerusalem mean that we provide Nebuchadnezzar with the chance to enter into the holy city and to take away those whom he chooses.
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Ezekiel 17:12
I am inclined to think that by the good quality of their conduct they increase yet more the agreeableness of the words of God, mixing the sweetness of the life with the sweet savor of the word.
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Ezekiel 17:13
If you have the covenant with us in a blessing, Nebuchadnezzar cannot make a covenant with you.
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Ezekiel 17:13
God makes covenant with us in a blessing; Nebuchadnezzar establishes his covenant in abuse.
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Ezekiel 17:16
As holy Scripture tells us, God intends that the covenant with Israel is an abuse against Nebuchadnezzar.
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Ezekiel 17:22
There is one who dishonors the judgment of God; there is another who honors it.