Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Ezekiel 21:9

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 7, page 249, footnote 14 (Image)

Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen

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On His Father's Silence, Because of the Plague of Hail. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 3089 (In-Text, Margin)

7. I know the glittering sword,[Ezekiel 21:9] and the blade made drunk in heaven, bidden to slay, to bring to naught, to make childless, and to spare neither flesh, nor marrow, nor bones. I know Him, Who, though free from passion, meets us like a bear robbed of her whelps, like a leopard in the way of the Assyrians, not only those of that day, but if anyone now is an Assyrian in wickedness: nor is it possible to escape the might and speed of His wrath when He watches over our impieties, and His jealousy, which knoweth to ...