Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Ezekiel 34:18

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 256, footnote 5 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

The Letters of St. Jerome. (HTML)

To Principia. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 3556 (In-Text, Margin)

... While Marcella was thus serving the Lord in holy tranquillity, there arose in these provinces a tornado of heresy which threw everything into confusion; indeed so great was the fury into which it lashed itself that it spared neither itself nor anything that was good. And as if it were too little to have disturbed everything here, it introduced a ship freighted with blasphemies into the port of Rome itself. The dish soon found itself a cover; and the muddy feet of heretics fouled the clear waters[Ezekiel 34:18] of the faith of Rome. No wonder that in the streets and in the market places a soothsayer can strike fools on the back or, catching up his cudgel, shatter the teeth of such as carp at him; when such venomous and filthy teaching as this has found at ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 13, page 384, footnote 3 (Image)

Gregory the Great II, Ephriam Syrus, Aphrahat

Selections from the Hymns and Homilies of Ephraim the Syrian and from the Demonstrations of Aphrahat the Persian Sage. (HTML)

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Of Pastors. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1022 (In-Text, Margin)

3. But those pastors who did not care for the sheep, those were hirelings who used to feed themselves alone. On this account the Prophet[Ezekiel 34:18-19] addresses them, saying to them:— O ye pastors who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture, hear the word of the Lord.  Thus saith the Lord:  Lo! I will visit My sheep as the pastor visits his flock in the day of the whirlwind, and I will require My sheep at your hands.  O foolish pastors, with the wool of the sheep do ye clothe yourselves and the flesh of the fatlings do eat, and the sheep ye do not feed.  That which was ...