Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Ezekiel 23:3

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 168, footnote 5 (Image)

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CCEL Footnote 2471 (In-Text, Margin)

A noble alternative truly which is only to be embraced in preference to Satan! In old days even Jerusalem went a-whoring and opened her feet to every one that passed by. It was in Egypt that she was first deflowered and there that her teats were bruised.[Ezekiel 23:3] And afterwards when she had come to the wilderness and, impatient of the delays of her leader Moses, had said when maddened by the stings of lust: “these be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt,” she received statutes that were not good and commandments that were altogether evil whereby she should not live but should be punished through ...