Ezekiel 3:17 (WEB)
“Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel. Therefore hear the word from my mouth, and warn them from me.
Fathers and councils · 7
Justin Martyr
“But if thou warn him, thou shalt be innocent.’” — editor's note: Ezek. iii. 17, 18, 19.
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Gregory the Great
“And again it is written, I have given thee for a watchman unto the house of Israel, thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and declare it to them from me (Ezek. iii. 17).” — the author cites it
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“…to Moses “Go down, charge the people” and to Ezekiel “I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel,” and it shall be “if thou warn not the wicked,” and the like: for I think it needless to write at length to one who knows.” — editor's note: Ezekiel iii. 17, 19. inexact quotation.
Read the whole comment“And again, “I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; when thou speakest not to warn the wicked from his wicked way, the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity but his blood shall I require at thine hand.”” — editor's note: Cf. Ezekiel iii. 17, 18. Quotations are apparently from memory.
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Leo the Great
“…discipline of the Church: and if we do not repress such things with the vigilance we ought, we cannot excuse ourselves to Him who intended us to be watchmen, for permitting the pure body of the Church, which we ought to keep clean from every stain, to be defiled by contact with wicked schemers, since the framework…” — editor's note: Cf. Ezek. iii. 17.
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Ambrose of Milan
“But if thou warn the righteous that he sin not, and he doth not sin, the righteous shall surely live because thou hast warned him, and thou shalt deliver thy soul.”” — editor's note: Ezek. iii. 17, 20, 21.
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Augustine of Hippo
“That watchman, “got out from thence,” to whom it was I said, “I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel.”” — editor's note: Ezek. iii. 17.
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Cross-references · 19
Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII I.24.
Cited together in Letters Letter 123.
Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII I.24.
Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII I.24.
Cited together in Letters Letter 4.
Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII I.24.
Cited together in Letters Letter 4.
Cited together in Letters Letter 4.
Cited together in Letters Letter 4.
Cited together in Letters Letter 4.
Cited together in Letters Letter 4.
Cited together in Letters Letter 123.
Cited together in Letters Letter 123.
Cited together in Letters Letter 123.
Cited together in Letters Letter 4.
Cited together in Letters Letter 4.
Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII I.24.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 82.
Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII I.24 and 1 other place.