Ezekiel 28:17 (WEB)
Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty. You have corrupted your wisdom by reason of your splendor. I have cast you to the ground. I have laid you before kings, that they may see you.
Fathers and councils · 3
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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Cross-references · 6
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.
Cited together in Conferences I–X VIII.8.
Cited together in Conferences I–X VIII.8.