Ezekiel 28:2 (WEB)
“Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, ‘The Lord GOD says: “Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, ‘I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the middle of the seas;’ yet you are man, and no god, though you set your heart as the heart of a god—
Fathers and councils · 4
Athanasius of Alexandria
- Athanasius of Alexandria, Against the Arians III.3Discourse III
“…thinking that they shall be as the Son, lest they hear it said to them, ‘Thou art a man and not God,’ and ‘Stretch not thyself, being poor, beside a rich man.’” — editor's note: Ez. xxviii. 2; Prov. xxiii. 4, LXX.
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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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Aphrahat
“And since the years of that King of Tyre were many, all the time he thus said in his heart, I am God and sit in the seat of God in the heart of the seas.” — editor's note: Ezek. xxviii. 2.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord.”” — editor's note: Ezek. xxviii. 2–10.
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