Ezequiel 20
Origen of Alexandria · Comentário Patrístico (catena)
Ezequiel 20:25
Having forgotten the benefits and marvels performed by God, they set up the head of a calf. For this reason, therefore, precepts are given to them by which they are tested. Hence it is that through the prophet Ezekiel the Lord says to them, "I gave you precepts and ordinances that were not good, by which you will not live." For when they were tested in the precepts of the Lord, they were not found faithful. — HOMILIES ON EXODUS 7:2
Ezequiel 20:25
We hold, then, that the law has a twofold sense—the one literal, the other spiritual—as has been shown by some before us. Of the first or literal sense it is said, not by us but by God, speaking in one of the prophets, that "the statutes are not good, and the judgments not good"; whereas, taken in a spiritual sense, the same prophet makes God say that "his statutes are good, and his judgments are good." — AGAINST CELSUS 7:20
Ezequiel 20:32
The first Passover belongs to the first people; the second Passover is ours. For we were "impure in soul," who "used to worship wood and stone" and "not knowing God, we used to serve those things that by nature were not gods." — HOMILIES ON EXODUS 7:4