Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Ezekiel 48
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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 4, page 584, footnote 14 (Image)
Tertullian (IV), Minucius Felix, Commodian, Origen
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If one wished to obtain means for a profounder contemplation of the entrance of souls into divine things, not from the statements of that very insignificant sect from which he quoted, but from books—partly those of the Jews, which are read in their synagogues, and adopted by Christians, and partly from those of Christians alone—let him peruse, at the end of Ezekiel’s prophecies, the visions beheld by the prophet, in which gates of different kinds are enumerated,[Ezekiel 48] which obscurely refer to the different modes in which divine souls enter into a better world; and let him peruse also, from the Apocalypse of John, what is related of the city of God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and of its foundations and gates. And if he is capable of ...