Ezekiel 32:2 (WEB)
“Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and tell him, ‘You were likened to a young lion of the nations; yet you are as a monster in the seas. You broke out with your rivers, and troubled the waters with your feet, and fouled their rivers.’”
Fathers and councils · 2
- Origen, Against Celsus VI.43Book VI
“I have not yet mentioned the passages in Ezekiel, where he speaks, as it were, of Pharaoh, or Nebuchadnezzar, or the prince of Tyre; or those in Isaiah, where lament is made for the king of Babylon, from which…” — editor's note: Cf. Ezek. xxxii. 1–28.
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“For the prophet intimates that the serpent and dragon, which certainly is referred to one of the wicked spirits, is also in the sea.” — editor's note: Cf. Ezek. xxxii. 2 seqq.
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