Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Ezekiel 30

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 3, page 549, footnote 9 (Image)

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CCEL Footnote 3291 (In-Text, Margin)

... led away principalities and powers, triumphing over them in Himself.” Those rulers, then, whom God had set over mankind, having become contumacious and tyrannical, took in hand to assail the men who had been committed to their charge and to rout them utterly in the conflicts of sin, as the Prophet Ezekiel mystically intimates when he says, “In that day angels shall come forth hastening to exterminate Ethiopia, and there shall be perturbation among them in the day of Egypt; for behold He comes.”[Ezekiel 30:9] Having stript them then of their almighty power, Christ is said to have triumphed, and to have delivered to men the power which was taken from them, as also Himself saith to His disciples in the Gospel, “Behold I have given you power to tread upon ...