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Ezekiel 18:32 (WEB)
For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies,” says the Lord GOD. “Therefore turn yourselves, and live!

Fathers and councils · 11

Ambrose of Milan, Concerning Repentance I.3Book I
“How, then, can your sacrifice, who refuse mercy, be acceptable to God, since He says that He wills not the death of a sinner, but his correction?” — editor's note: Ezek. xviii. 32.
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Athanasius of Alexandria, Festal and Personal Letters Festal Letters.3Festal Letters
“For He desired, as He testified in Ezekiel, the repentance of a man rather than his death; so that evil should be entirely consumed in all men, that the soul, being purified, might be able to bring forth fruit; for the word which is sown by Him will be productive, some thirty, some sixty, some an hundred.” — editor's note: Ezek. xviii. 23, 32.
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John Chrysostom, Homilies on John Homily 67
“…or to punish us, but even when He punisheth, doth it unwillingly; “I will not,” He saith, “the death of a sinner, so much as that he should turn and live.” ( Ezek. xviii. 32 , LXX.) Christ also mourneth over the destruction of Jerusalem, as we also do over our friends.” — the author cites it
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Jerome, Letters Letter 122
“For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord.”” — editor's note: Ezek. xviii. 30–32.
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Basil the Great, Letters Letter 44
“The Lord willeth not the death of a sinner but rather that he should turn and live.” — editor's note: cf. Ezek. xviii. 32.
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Tertullian, On Modesty Chapter 2
““But,” say they, “God is ‘good,’ and ‘most good,’ and ‘pitiful-hearted,’ and ‘a pitier,’ and ‘abundant in pitiful-heartedness,’ which He holds ‘dearer than all sacrifice,’ ‘not thinking the sinner’s death of so much worth as his repentance’, ‘a Saviour of all men, most of all of believers.’” — editor's note: Ezek. xviii. 23, 32; xxxiii. 11.
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Tertullian, On Repentance Chapter 4
“…destined penalty by means of judgment, has withal engaged to grant pardon by means of repentance, saying to the people, “Repent thee, and I will save thee;” and again, “I live, saith the Lord, and I will (have) repentance rather than death.”” — editor's note: Comp. Ezek. xviii. 30, 32.
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Cyprian of Carthage, On the Advantage of Patience
“…may even though late be converted to God, as He Himself warns and says, “I do not will the death of him that dieth, so much as that he may return and live.”” — editor's note: Ezek. xviii. 32.
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Aphrahat, Select Demonstrations Demonstration 8
“For thus it is written in Ezekiel the Prophet, As I live, saith the Lord of lords, I desire not the death of the dead sinner.” — editor's note: Ez. xviii. 23, 32; xxxiii. 11.
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Clement of Alexandria, The Instructor I.7Book I
“For “the Lord willeth the repentance of the sinner rather than his death.”” — editor's note: Ezek. xviii. 23, 32.
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Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.6Book VI
“…profession there; since God’s punishments are saving and disciplinary, leading to conversion, and choosing rather the repentance them the death of a sinner; and especially since souls, although darkened by passions, when released from their bodies, are able to perceive more clearly, because of their being no longer…” — editor's note: Ezek. xviii. 23, 32; xxxiii. 11, etc.
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