Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Ezekiel 23:5

There is 1 footnote for this reference.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 8, page 50, footnote 4 (Image)

Basil: Letters and Select Works

De Spiritu Sancto. (HTML)

Exposition of the present state of the Churches. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1354 (In-Text, Margin)

... discussion of them must be anything but becoming. I am moreover restrained by the Prophet’s saying, “Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time, for it is an evil time,” a time when some trip up their neighbours’ heels, some stamp on a man when he is down, and others clap their hands with joy, but there is not one to feel for the fallen and hold out a helping hand, although according to the ancient law he is not uncondemned, who passes by even his enemy’s beast of burden fallen under his load.[Ezekiel 23:5] This is not the state of things now. Why not? The love of many has waxed cold; brotherly concord is destroyed, the very name of unity is ignored, brotherly admonitions are heard no more, nowhere is there Christian pity, nowhere falls the tear of ...