Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Ezekiel 22:8

There is 1 footnote for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 3, page 155, footnote 9 (Image)

Tertullian (I, II, III)

Apologetic. (HTML)

An Answer to the Jews. (HTML)

Of the Observance of the Sabbath. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1190 (In-Text, Margin)

... except what pertaineth unto life.” Whence we (Christians) understand that we still more ought to observe a sabbath from all “servile work” always, and not only every seventh day, but through all time. And through this arises the question for us, what sabbath God willed us to keep? For the Scriptures point to a sabbath eternal and a sabbath temporal. For Isaiah the prophet says, “ Your sabbaths my soul hateth;” and in another place he says, “ My sabbaths ye have profaned.”[Ezekiel 22:8] Whence we discern that the temporal sabbath is human, and the eternal sabbath is accounted divine; concerning which He predicts through Isaiah: “And there shall be,” He says, “month after month, and day after day, and sabbath after sabbath; and all ...