Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Ezekiel 16:8

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 192, footnote 20 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

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CCEL Footnote 2702 (In-Text, Margin)

... whom Gabriel found alone in her chamber and who was frightened, it would appear, by seeing a man there. Let the child emulate her of whom it is written that “the king’s daughter is all glorious within.” Wounded with love’s arrow let her say to her beloved, “the king hath brought me into his chambers.” At no time let her go abroad, lest the watchmen find her that go about the city, and lest they smite and wound her and take away from her the veil of her chastity, and leave her naked in her blood.[Ezekiel 16:1-10] Nay rather when one knocketh at her door let her say: “I am a wall and my breasts like towers. I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?”