Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Ezekiel 13:12

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 275, footnote 4 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

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CCEL Footnote 3813 (In-Text, Margin)

... being the state of the case, what object is served by “silly women laden with sins, carried about with every wind of doctrine, ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth?” Or how is the cause helped by the men who dance attendance upon these, men with itching ears who know neither how to hear nor how to speak? They confound old mire with new cement and, as Ezekiel says, daub a wall with untempered mortar; so that, when the truth comes in a shower, they are brought to nought.[Ezekiel 13:10-16] It was with the help of the harlot Helena that Simon Magus founded his sect. Bands of women accompanied Nicolas of Antioch that deviser of all uncleanness. Marcion sent a woman before him to Rome to prepare men’s minds to fall into his snares. ...