Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Ezekiel 47:8

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 145, footnote 10 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

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CCEL Footnote 2059 (In-Text, Margin)

... compressed and denser waters. The first living beings come out of the waters; and believers soar out of the laver with wings to heaven. Man is formed out of clay and God holds the mystic waters in the hollow of his hand. In Eden a garden is planted, and a fountain in the midst of it parts into four heads. This is the same fountain which Ezekiel later on describes as issuing out of the temple and flowing towards the rising of the sun, until it heals the bitter waters and quickens those that are dead.[Ezekiel 47:8] When the world falls into sin nothing but a flood of waters can cleanse it again. But as soon as the foul bird of wickedness is driven away, the dove of the Holy Spirit comes to Noah as it came afterwards to Christ in the Jordan, and, carrying in ...