Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Ezekiel 12:27

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 290, footnote 2 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

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To Sabinianus. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 3956 (In-Text, Margin)

... repented of his repentance. Yet doom overtook him when he pursued through the wilderness the people whom he had previously let go and presumed to enter the very sea in the eagerness of his pursuit. For only in this one way could he learn the lesson that He is to be dreaded whom even the elements obey. He had said: “I know not the Lord, neither will I let Israel go;” and you imitate him when you say: “The vision that he seeth is for many days to come, and he prophesieth of the times that are far off.”[Ezekiel 12:27-28] Yet the same prophet confutes you with these words: “Thus saith the Lord God, There shall none of my words be prolonged any more, but the word which I have spoken shall be done.” David too says of the godless (and of godlessness you have proved ...