Ezequiel 3
Theodoret of Cyrus · Comentário Patrístico (catena)
Ezequiel 3:3
Just as he contemplated that vision in spirit, so he now felt its taste in spirit. — COMMENTARY ON EZEKIEL 1:3
Ezequiel 3:4-5
Here he clearly shows the distinction between apostolic and prophetic labors. Prophets have committed to them the responsibility of only one race, from which they were to have arisen and whose native language they knew. Apostles … have all the nations and peoples of the world entrusted to them, according to the command of the Lord. — COMMENTARY ON EZEKIEL 1:3
Ezequiel 3:17
"You must be," he says, "like a watchman, who is placed on top of some hill, with orders to announce for himself beforehand any invasions by barbarians. And you must be set up as if on a watchtower, on the highest point of prophecy, and what you foresee, you must tell out to the people." — COMMENTARY ON EZEKIEL 1:3
Ezequiel 3:22
Quiet is afforded by contemplating divine things, when the mind is free from external cares, which makes it anticipate things, and it is distracted no more fully here or there, but it can take in divine things more exactly when it is turned in on itself. — COMMENTARY ON EZEKIEL 2:3