Ezequiel 13
Origen of Alexandria · Comentário Patrístico (catena)
Ezequiel 13:1
There is no kind of sin about which Scripture is silent and about which it does not teach its readers. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 2:1
Ezequiel 13:2
If the Word of God accuses me, I will try to be converted. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 2:2
Ezequiel 13:2
The word of the present can agree with those who teach in the church, as long as they do not teach other than what the truth demands. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 2:2
Ezequiel 13:2
If anyone reading the gospel fits its proper sense to the gospel without understanding that the Lord speaks, he is a false prophet speaking according to his own heart in the gospel. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 2:2
Ezequiel 13:2
If I find in Moses and the prophets the thought of Christ, I speak not according to my own heart but from the Holy Spirit. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 2:2
Ezequiel 13:2
False prophets are teachers of the church whose words or life do not properly accord with the doctrine that they preach. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 2:1
Ezequiel 13:3
In the same way that a saint prays with the Spirit and prays with understanding and sings with the spirit and sings with understanding, so the false prophet prophesies according to his own heart and follows not the Spirit of God but his own spirit. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 2:3
Ezequiel 13:4
The fox is an animal good for nothing, sly, wild, ferocious. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 2:4
Ezequiel 13:6
All that they want is false, and they can never see the truth. Take an example. To read the Scripture and to hear something other than what is written is to have an untruthful picture of Scripture; but to hear Scripture and interpret it in accordance with the truth, that is to see the truth. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 2:5
Ezequiel 13:7
This is what we are looking for, that the Lord will be present as a witness to my words, that he may himself confirm what is said by witness of his holy Scriptures. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 2:5
Ezequiel 13:7
Pray for us that our words may not be false. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 2:5
Ezequiel 13:17
It should have a face that wants to be fixed toward what it is striving to understand, and for this reason the order is always first given to those who want to prophecy to make their face firm. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 3:1
Ezequiel 13:17
This face, that is to say the ruling faculty in our soul, if it is not fixed toward what it should understand in the manner that it sees, it announces to its hearers that what it looks at has not in fact been seen. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 3:1
Ezequiel 13:17
Soft are the souls and intentions of those leaders who always compose resonant and harmonious words. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 3:3
Ezequiel 13:18
The Word of God must proclaim what is for the salvation of the hearer, what exhorts him to continence, to the practice of sensible actions, to all the things to which the person who is assiduous in works and not pleasures must apply himself in order to be able to obtain what God has promised. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 3:3
Ezequiel 13:18
When the work of the speaker is deployed in licentious talk, a veil is placed on the head of everyone regardless of age, not just the children and the young but also the elderly. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 3:3
Ezequiel 13:18
Allow me, O Christ, to break all pillows made for the luxury of souls. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 3:4
Ezequiel 13:21
We flee what is bitter, even though it is good for us, and we do not want to labor, because we are softened by pleasures, because we do not know that it is impossible to be a friend of pleasure and at the same time a friend of God. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 3:5
Ezequiel 13:22
Let us pray that God will deliver us even from the hand of such leaders who, wherever they are, speak to please their hearers and cut and divide the church, because many are more fond of pleasures than they are of God. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 3:6