Ezekiel 16:6 (WEB)
“‘“When I passed by you, and saw you wallowing in your blood, I said to you, ‘Though you are in your blood, live!’ Yes, I said to you, ‘Though you are in your blood, live!’
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John Chrysostom
““I saw thee,” saith He, “polluted in blood; and I washed thee, and anointed thee; and thou hadst renown for thy beauty; and thou pouredst out thy fornications,” saith He, “on those who dwell near thee,”wherefore also the more grievous are His threatenings to thee when thou sinnest.” — editor's note: Ezek. xvi. 6, 9, 14, 26.
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Jerome
“When Ezekiel tells us how Jerusalem is found in the plain of wandering, covered with blood, he uses the words: “Thy navel has not been cut.”” — editor's note: Ezek. xvi. 4–6.
Read the whole comment“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.
Read the whole comment“…who need a physician but they that are sick, even after his sin I hold out a hand to the prostrate sinner and exhort him, polluted as he is in his own blood, to wash away his stains with tears of penitence.” — editor's note: Cf. Ezek. xvi. 6.
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