Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Ezekiel 16:48
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 4, page 530, footnote 1 (Image)
Athanasius: Select Writings and Letters
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The Festal Letters, and their Index. (HTML)
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For 338. Coss. Ursus and Polemius; Præf. the same Theodorus, of Heliopolis, and of the Catholics. After him, for the second year, Philagrius; Indict. xi; Easter-day, vii Kal. Ap. xxx Phamenoth; Moon 18½; Æra Dioclet. 54. (HTML)
... themselves without the law, being no longer called children, but strangers. For thus in the Psalms was it before declared, saying, ‘The strange children have acted falsely by Me.’ And by Isaiah the prophet; ‘I have begotten and brought up children, and they have rejected Me. ’ And they are no longer named the people of God, and a holy nation, but rulers of Sodom, and people of Gomorrah; having exceeded in this even the iniquity of the Sodomites, as the prophet also saith, ‘Sodom is justified before thee[Ezekiel 16:48].’ For the Sodomites raved against angels, but these against the Lord and God and King of all, and these dared to slay the Lord of angels, not knowing that Christ, who was slain by them, liveth. But those Jews who had conspired against the Lord died, ...
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 13, page 393, footnote 2 (Image)
Gregory the Great II, Ephriam Syrus, Aphrahat
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CCEL Footnote 1092 (In-Text, Margin)
... part of it gracious?” He answered:—“A wrathful passage is altogether wrath, and there is no peace in it.” And I said to him:—“Since thou hast instructed me that there is no peace in that wrathful passage, hear without contention and blaspheme not, and I will instruct thee about this saying. For from the top to the bottom the whole passage is said in wrath. For he said to Jerusalem:— As I live, saith the Lord God, Sodom and her daughters did not do at all as thou and they daughters have done.[Ezekiel 16:48] And he said to her (Jerusalem):— Be abashed and accept thy shame, that thou hast overcome thy sisters in thy sins, and they are justified rather than thou. Since he says that Sodom and her daughters were justified rather than Jerusalem and ...