Ezekiel 3:18 (WEB)
When I tell the wicked, ‘You will surely die;’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life, that wicked man will die in his iniquity; but I will require his blood at your hand.
Fathers and councils · 6
Justin Martyr
“But if thou warn him, thou shalt be innocent.’” — editor's note: Ezek. iii. 17, 18, 19.
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John Chrysostom
“…the watchman give warning what it behooves to flee from, and what to choose, he hath delivered his own soul, although there be none that will take heed.” ( Ezek. iii. 18, and xxxiii. 9 ; not quoted from LXX.) Yet although we have this strong consolation, and are confident of the recompense that shall be made us,…” — the author cites it
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“…and as God charged Ezekiel to announce to the people, adding threats and saying, “when thou givest him not warning,…his blood will I require at thine hand.”” — editor's note: Ez. iii. 18
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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Ambrose of Milan
“If the priest speak not to him that erreth, he who errs shall die in his sin, and the priest shall be liable to the penalty because he warned not the erring.” — editor's note: Ezek. iii. 18.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“For it is to be feared that we shall have to hear these words concerning those who have been entrusted to us: I will require their souls at your hands; and, Because ye have rejected me, and not been leaders and rulers of my people, I also will reject you, that I should not be king over you; and, As ye refused…” — editor's note: Ezek. iii. 18.
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Cross-references · 3
Cited together in Letters Letter 169.
Cited together in Letters Letter 169.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 82.