Ezequiel 20
John Chrysostom · Comentário Patrístico (catena)
Ezequiel 20:5
Is it not true that from the beginning and long before today you lived with countless transgressions of the law? Did not the prophet Ezekiel accuse you ten thousand times when he brought in the two harlots, Oholah and Oholibah, and said, "You built a brothel in Egypt, you passionately loved barbarians, and you worshiped strange gods." — DISCOURSES AGAINST JUDAIZING CHRISTIANS 6:2.5
Ezequiel 20:12
For indeed the sabbath did at first confer many and great benefits; for instance, it made them gentle toward their household and humane; it taught them God's providence in the creation; as Ezekiel says, it trained them by degrees to abstain from wickedness and disposed them to regard the things of the Spirit. — HOMILIES ON THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW 39:3
Ezequiel 20:25
To convince you that these laws contribute not to any virtue but were given to them as a sort of curb, providing them with an occasion of perpetual labor, hear what the prophet says concerning them: "I gave them statutes that were not good." What does "not good" mean? Statutes that did not contribute greatly toward virtue. Therefore he adds also, "and ordinances whereby they shall not live." — HOMILIES ON 1 CORINTHIANS 7:9