Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Ezekiel 4:9

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 54, footnote 4 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

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CCEL Footnote 860 (In-Text, Margin)

... is callous to his sufferings, and has to appear as his enemy? Yet such is the order of nature. While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evil-doing. Isaiah goes naked without blushing as a type of captivity to come. Jeremiah is sent from Jerusalem to the Euphrates (a river in Mesopotamia), and leaves his girdle to be marred in the Chaldæan camp, among the Assyrians hostile to his people. Ezekiel is told to eat bread made of mingled seeds and sprinkled with the dung of men and cattle.[Ezekiel 4:9-16] He has to see his wife die without shedding a tear. Amos is driven from Samaria. Why is he driven from it? Surely in this case as in the others, because he was a spiritual surgeon, who cut away the parts diseased by sin and urged men to repentance. ...