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Ezekiel 20:25 (WEB)
Moreover also I gave them statutes that were not good, and ordinances in which they couldn’t live.

Fathers and councils · 5

Origen, Against Celsus VII.20Book VII
“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 good.”” — editor's note: Ezek. xx. 25.
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John Cassian, Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXI.33Conference XXI
“…brought nothing to perfection;” and the Lord says by the prophet: “And I gave them commands that were not good, and ordinances, whereby they could not live”, but under grace which does not merely lop off the boughs of wickedness, but actually tears up the very roots of an evil will.” — editor's note: Heb. vii. 18, 19; Ezek. xx. 25.
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John Cassian, Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIII.4Conference XXIII
“…anything but good by the Divine oracle: for He says: “And I gave them precepts that were not good, and ordinances whereby they should not live in them.”” — editor's note: Ezek. xx. 25.
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Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 21
“And I shall pollute them in their own gifts, that I may destroy all that openeth the womb, when I pass through them.’” — editor's note: Ezek. xx. 19–26.
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Jerome, Letters Letter 79
“…brought thee up out of the land of Egypt,” she received statutes that were not good and commandments that were altogether evil whereby she should not live but should be punished through them.” — editor's note: Ezek. xx. 25.
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