Ezekiel 16:3 (WEB)
and say, ‘The Lord GOD says to Jerusalem: “Your origin and your birth is of the land of the Canaanite. An Amorite was your father, and your mother was a Hittite.
Fathers and councils · 7
Tertullian
“And elsewhere it says, through a prophet, to the people of Israel, “Thy father (was) an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite;” of whose race they were not begotten, but (were called their sons) by reason of their consimilarity in impiety, whom of old (God) had called His own sons…” — editor's note: Ezek. xvi. 3, 45.
Read the whole comment“And in another passage He also says: “Thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite,” by reason of their kindred iniquity; although He had actually called them His sons: “I have nourished and brought up children.”” — editor's note: Ezek. xvi. 3.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences I–X III.7Conference III
“And of this father Scripture says to Jerusalem which had despised God the true Father, “Thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother a Hittite;” and in the gospel we read “Ye are of your father the devil and the lusts of your father ye love to do.”” — editor's note: Ezek. xvi. 3.
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Justin Martyr
“For you know,” continued I, “that the Holy Spirit oftentimes announces such events by parables and similitudes; just as He did towards all the people in Jerusalem, frequently saying to them, ‘Thy father is an Amorite, and thy mother a Hittite.’” — editor's note: Ezek. xvi. 3.
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Jerome
“At no time let her go abroad, lest the watchmen find her that go about the city, and lest they smite and wound her and take away from her the veil of her chastity, and leave her naked in her blood.” — editor's note: Cf. Ezek. xvi. 1–10.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- Remigius of AuxerreCatena Aurea on Matthew
“The manner of Scripture is to give names from the imitation of deeds, according to that of Ezekiel, “Thy father was an Amorite;” [Ezek 16:3] so these from following vipers are called “generation of vipers.”” — the author cites it
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Augustine of Hippo
“The prophet says to those very Jews, “Thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother a Hittite.”” — editor's note: Ezek. xvi. 3.
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Cross-references · 13
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion III.12.
Cited together in Remigius of Auxerre on Matthew 3:7–10 (Catena Aurea) and 1 other place.
Cited together in Remigius of Auxerre on Matthew 3:7–10 (Catena Aurea) and 1 other place.
Cited together in Remigius of Auxerre on Matthew 3:7–10 (Catena Aurea) and 1 other place.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 42.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 42.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion III.12.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion III.12.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion III.12.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion III.12.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion III.12.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion III.12.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion III.12.