Ezekiel 28:15 (WEB)
You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created, until unrighteousness was found in you.
Fathers and councils · 6
Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus VI.44Book VI
“…life to lose his wings, and to fall from blessedness; he who, according to Ezekiel, walked faultlessly in all his ways, “until iniquity was found in him,” and who being the “seal of resemblance” and the “crown of beauty” in the paradise of God, being filled as it were with good things, fell into destruction, in…” — editor's note: Cf. Ezek. xxviii. 15.
Read the whole comment “Thou hast been made destruction, and thou shalt exist no longer for ever.”” — editor's note: Ezek. xxviii. 11–19.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“…prophet Ezekiel: for he takes up a lamentation over him and says, Thou wast a seal of likeness, and a crown of beauty; in the Paradise of God wast thou born: and soon after, Thou wast born blameless in thy days, from the day in which thou wast created, until thine iniquities were found in thee.” — editor's note: Ezek. xxviii. 12–17, an obscure passage, addressed to the Prince of Tyre, and meaning that he was “the perfect pattern” of earthly glory, set in a condition…
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences I–X VIII.8Conference VIII
“Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thy iniquities and by the iniquity of thy traffic.”” — editor's note: Ezek. xxviii. 11–18.
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Aphrahat
“But when his heart was lifted up, the cherub who overshadoweth, destroyed him.” — editor's note: Ezek. xxviii. 14, 15.
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Tertullian
“By the abundance of thy merchandise thou hast filled thy storehouses, and thou hast sinned,” etc. This description, it is manifest, properly belongs to the transgression of the angel, and not to the prince’s: for none among human beings was either born in…” — editor's note: Ezek. xxviii. 11–16 (Sept.).
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Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.10.
Cited together in Against Celsus VI.44.
Cited together in Against Celsus VI.44.
Cited together in Conferences I–X VIII.8.
Cited together in Conferences I–X VIII.8.
Cited together in Conferences I–X VIII.8.
Cited together in Against Celsus VI.44.
Cited together in Conferences I–X VIII.8.
Cited together in Conferences I–X VIII.8.
Cited together in Conferences I–X VIII.8.