Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Zechariah 11:5

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 7, page 218, footnote 11 (Image)

Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen

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In Defence of His Flight to Pontus, and His Return, After His Ordination to the Priesthood, with an Exposition of the Character of the Priestly Office. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2738 (In-Text, Margin)

... the roaring of lions, for this hath befallen them. Does he not all but hear the wailing as if close at hand, and himself wail with the afflicted. A little further is a more striking and impassioned strain. Feed, he says, the flock of slaughter, whose possessors slay them without repentance, and they that sell them say, “Blessed be the Lord, for we are rich:” and their own shepherds are without feeling for them. Therefore, I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the Lord Almighty.[Zechariah 11:5-6] And again: Awake, O sword, against the shepherds, and smite the shepherds, and scatter the sheep, and I will turn My Hand upon the shepherds; and, Mine anger is kindled against the shepherds, and I will visit the lambs: adding to the threat those ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 7, page 253, footnote 19 (Image)

Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen

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On His Father's Silence, Because of the Plague of Hail. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 3167 (In-Text, Margin)

... unrealised, to give an account of his riches and fancies, and proved to have been a bad steward of another’s goods. Another has turned aside the way of the meek, and turned aside the just among the unjust; another has hated him that reproveth in the gates, and abhorred him that speaketh uprightly; another has sacrificed to his net which catches much, and keeping the spoil of the poor in his house, has either remembered not God, or remembered Him ill—by saying “Blessed be the Lord, for we are rich,”[Zechariah 11:5] and wickedly supposed that he received these things from Him by Whom he will be punished. For because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. Because of these things the heaven is shut, or opened for our ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 7, page 310, footnote 1 (Image)

Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen

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The Fourth Theological Oration, Which is the Second Concerning the Son. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 3595 (In-Text, Margin)

II. In their eyes the following is only too ready to hand “The Lord created me at the beginning of His ways with a view to His works.”[Zechariah 11:5] How shall we meet this? Shall we bring an accusation against Solomon, or reject his former words because of his fall in after-life? Shall we say that the words are those of Wisdom herself, as it were of Knowledge and the Creator-word, in accordance with which all things were made? For Scripture often personifies many even lifeless objects; as for instance, “The Sea said” so and so; and, “The Depth saith, It is not in ...

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