Ezekiel 28:16 (WEB)
By the abundance of your commerce, your insides were filled with violence, and you have sinned. Therefore I have cast you as profane out of God’s mountain. I have destroyed you, covering cherub, from the middle of the stones of fire.
Fathers and councils · 5
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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Origen
“Thou hast been made destruction, and thou shalt exist no longer for ever.”” — editor's note: Ezek. xxviii. 11–19.
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Aphrahat
“And as for that He said again:—I will destroy the overshadowing Cherub.” — editor's note: Ezek. xxviii. 16.
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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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Cross-references · 7
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.10.
Cited together in Conferences I–X VIII.8.
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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 Conferences I–X VIII.8.