Ezequiel 16
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Ezequiel 16:2
Why is it that I admire Ezekiel? Because the order was given him to make known to Jerusalem its abominations, and he did not place before his eyes any danger that would result from his preaching, but in order to keep only the precepts of God, he spoke whatever he was told. Let us realize that there was a mystery, that there was the revelation of a mysterious kind on the subject of Jerusalem and all that is said against it. Nevertheless, he prophesied, and accused it of fornication. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 6:1
Ezequiel 16:3
If so many things are said in Jerusalem about which such great and wonderful things are written that have been promised to her, what future is there for unhappy me, if I sin? Who will I have for a father, who will I have for a mother? — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 6:3
Ezequiel 16:3
Which of the cities in the world were so elevated and so deep in knowledge as the city of God? — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 6:3
Ezequiel 16:4
The soul that is reborn is barely out of the bath before being enveloped with towels. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 6:6
Ezequiel 16:4
To take an example from human relationships, if the Holy Spirit gives, then I travel on to Jesus Christ and God the Father. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 6:6
Ezequiel 16:4
Not everyone is washed for salvation. We who have received the grace of baptism in the name of Christ are washed, but I do not know who is washed for salvation. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 6:5
Ezequiel 16:4
It is a great work to be rubbed with salt. If we are seasoned with salt, we are full of grace. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 6:6
Ezequiel 16:4
It is quite difficult that he who is washed should be washed in order to be saved. Listen, catechumens, listen, and from what is said, prepare yourselves, while you are catechumens, while you are not yet baptized, and come to the bath and be baptized for salvation. Do not be so baptized that you are washed but not for salvation. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 6:5
Ezequiel 16:6
But see the mercy of God, see his extraordinary goodness. Even though Jerusalem was thrown into the open field, he does not look down on it as thrown out forever, he does not leave it in a state of perversion as entirely forgotten, as not in the end to lift up the fallen. You were thrown out, but I still return to you; my visit is not lacking after your ruin." — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 6:7
Ezequiel 16:8
When we are of a greater age and can therefore sin, angels look for a chance to influence us, and that is as true of the angels of God as it is of the angels of Satan. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 6:8
Ezequiel 16:8
Let us pray that the mercy of God will come on us and wash away the blood from our souls. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 6:9
Ezequiel 16:12
We are not only anointed with this oil, but we also live. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 6:10
Ezequiel 16:12
Almighty God, grant to us to be worthy of the crown and glory on our head. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 6:10
Ezequiel 16:17
The golden and silver vase, the censers, the cups and the rest of that kind we have in the holy Scriptures. But when we turn the meaning of Scripture into another that is contrary to the truth, we kindle the divine words and turn the things of God into other images. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 7:2
Ezequiel 16:18
To me who preaches the gospel in the church, the devil always stretches out a noose, in order to confuse the whole church with my conduct. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 7:3
Ezequiel 16:18
Whoever is born in the teaching of heretics and has taken these principles for his own faith is a child of Jerusalem the fornicator and sinner. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 7:5
Ezequiel 16:18
Incense and oil are the prayer that is offered to God with understanding and in which God delights. — EXCERPTS ON EZEKIEL 16:18
Ezequiel 16:18
These various clothes and beautiful garments that God has bestowed on us, if we cut them up and rip them and surround them with false teaching to deceive human beings, there is no doubt that we are covering idols with different clothing. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 7:3
Ezequiel 16:18
We do not imitate anyone, but if we want to imitate anyone, we should imitate Jesus Christ. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 7:3
Ezequiel 16:23
Their bodies are corrupted, and the soul is wounded. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 7:6
Ezequiel 16:25
Possessing these things, she is of great beauty, but she is corrupted by the divisions of heretics and foreign religious systems. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 7:7
Ezequiel 16:26
You see that she is handed over to the souls of strangers, she who is unworthy to practice the law and the words of God. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 7:8
Ezequiel 16:28
When God makes covenants with us and we consent to them, we are blessed. But when we prostitute ourselves to the spirits of evil, then we turn the covenants of God into the land of Canaan, and we make a pact with her. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 7:9
Ezequiel 16:30
There is no doubt that the word of the orator provokes the hero to worse things when a heretic builds up his hero in the perversions of heresy by what he says. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 8:1
Ezequiel 16:30
Those who have not completely gone away from religion but are conquered by sin and who want their sin to be hidden behave exactly like a prostitute who has been insulted. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 8:1
Ezequiel 16:30
If you understand fornication of the flesh and the soul and the spirit, and if you see someone fornicating in them, you will also see Jerusalem fornicating herself three times. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 7:10
Ezequiel 16:30
As the law is not made for the just but for the lawless and those who are not subjected to God, so the teaching that warns us away from fornication does not become chaste but is for the lawless and the fornicators and the disobedient. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 7:10
Ezequiel 16:31
Ecclesiastics who are leaders in the church build the house of God, the church, in their own way of life as well as those of their faithful, and their work is the building of God. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 8:2
Ezequiel 16:33
The husband of the soul is the word of God, a spouse truly loving, who has given her chastity, justice and all the other gifts. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 8:3
Ezequiel 16:42
If you do not recover your senses when you have been chastised, if you are not corrected when you have been reproved, if you despise when you are beaten, you must realize that if you go on continually sinning his jealousy will depart from you and that which is said to Jerusalem by the prophet Ezekiel will be said to you: "Therefore my jealousy will depart from you, and I will no longer be angry with you." Behold the mercy and piety of the good God.… This is terrible! This is the end when we are no longer reproached for sins, when we offend and are no longer corrected. For then, when we have exceeded the measure of sinning "the jealous God" turns his jealousy away from us, as he said above, or my jealousy will be removed from you, and I will no longer be angry over you. — HOMILIES ON EXODUS 8:5
Ezequiel 16:45
As the Father and Son are one, so those who have one Spirit are brought together in unity. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 1:9
Ezequiel 16:45
To put it more clearly, the origin of all evils is the multitude, but the origin of good things is to retire from the crowd and to confine oneself to the solitary life. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 9:1
Ezequiel 16:45
Where there are sins, where there are multitudes of people, there are schisms, there are heresies, there are dissensions. But where there is virtue, there is unity, union, from which the single heart and spirit of all believers were made. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 9:1
Ezequiel 16:46
Virtue makes me to have Christ as my brother, so that I may be both good and well-mannered. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 9:1
Ezequiel 16:46
What are these two sisters of Jerusalem the sinner? Schism and division of the people created Samaria. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 9:1
Ezequiel 16:46
This is to despise Zion and to trust in the mountain of Samaria. For if we ecclesiastics sin, heretics are certainly not strangers to us in the perversion of their teaching. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 9:1
Ezequiel 16:49
Often having a fullness and an abundance of bread is the cause of arrogance. But often the sin of pride also arises over spiritual gifts, and discernment is needed to distinguish the one from the other. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 9:5
Ezequiel 16:49
To know that sins are unequal you only have to look at the teaching of the Scriptures, which will leave you in no doubt. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 9:2
Ezequiel 16:49
What then is the sin most great of all sins? It is the one for which the devil fell.… Pride is greater than all sins, and the principal sin of the devil.… Often the reason for pride is for him who disregards having an ecclesiastical dignity. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 9:2
Ezequiel 16:51
My Lord Jesus Christ is justified according to the dispensation of the flesh that he purified for our salvation, by Abraham, by Isaac, by Jacob and by the rest of the prophets. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 9:3
Ezequiel 16:51
Before Christ it was not possible for the light of the righteous to shine. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 9:3
Ezequiel 16:52
O you who are subject to pain, do not go into exile with mourning. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 10:1
Ezequiel 16:52
If we justify providence, we cleanse our disgrace; but if we do not receive the judgments of God, we will multiply our disgrace. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 10:1
Ezequiel 16:52
It is an infamy to be separated from the people of God and from the church; it is a dishonor in the church to leave the bench of presbyters, to be expelled from the rank of the diaconate. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 10:1
Ezequiel 16:52
The person who is "very small" deserves mercy more quickly. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 10:2
Ezequiel 16:52
The more we come very near to God the more we come near the beatitude; and when we have sinned, we shall be far from it and very near terrible and very great punishments. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 10:2
Ezequiel 16:53
Anger is something other than God himself, so that it is never part of him, nor does he share in it in any way. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 10:2
Ezequiel 16:54
It is plain that the just and good God of the law and the gospels is one and the same and that he does good with justice and punishes in kindness, since neither goodness without justice nor justice without goodness can describe the dignity of the divine nature. — ON FIRST PRINCIPLES 2:5.3
Ezequiel 16:61
Let us pray with all our heart that God would grant us to fight for truth to the very end of our mind and body. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 10:5
Ezequiel 16:61
After receiving the price of my sins and being re-established, and the covenant made with me, then do I understand my evil deeds, and I am confounded, and within I punish myself. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 10:5