Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Ezekiel 22:20
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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 4, page 549, footnote 7 (Image)
Tertullian (IV), Minucius Felix, Commodian, Origen
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... built up wood, or hay, or stubble, in that which is figuratively termed a “building.” And the holy Scriptures say that the Lord will, like a refiner’s fire and fullers’ soap, visit each one of those who require purification, because of the intermingling in them of a flood of wicked matter proceeding from their evil nature; who need fire, I mean, to refine, as it were, (the dross of) those who are intermingled with copper, and tin, and lead. And he who likes may learn this from the prophet Ezekiel.[Ezekiel 22:20] But that we say that God brings fire upon the world, not like a cook, but like a God, who is the benefactor of them who stand in need of the discipline of fire, will be testified by the prophet Isaiah, in whose writings it is related that a sinful ...