Ezekiel 33:11 (WEB)
Tell them, ‘“As I live,” says the Lord GOD, “I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why will you die, house of Israel?”’
Fathers and councils · 24
Eusebius of Caesarea
“And being made alive and strengthened, they went to the judgment seat to be again interrogated by the governor; God, who desires not the death of the sinner, but mercifully invites to repentance, treating them with kindness.” — editor's note: Ezek. xxxiii. 11.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences XI–XVII XIII.7Conference XIII
“For He is true, and lieth not when He lays down with an oath: “As I live, saith the Lord God, for I will not the death of a sinner, but that he should turn from his way and live.”” — editor's note: Ezek. xxxiii. 11.
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Justin Martyr
“For the goodness and the loving-kindness of God, and His boundless riches, hold righteous and sinless the man who, as Ezekiel tells, repents of sins; and reckons sinful, unrighteous, and impious the man who fails away from piety and righteousness to unrighteousness and ungodliness.” — editor's note: Ezek. xxxiii. 11–20.
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Augustine of Hippo
“By these words of God, he is brought back to hope; but there is another snare to be feared, lest through this very hope he sin the more.” — editor's note: Ezek. xxxiii. 11.
Read the whole comment“…shall have recourse to the goodness of God, who forasmuch as He “willeth not the death of the wicked, but rather that he should turn from his way and live,” hath given the Holy Spirit to His Church, that whosoever forgiveth sins in the Spirit, they should be forgiven.” — editor's note: Ezek. xxxiii. 11.
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John Chrysostom
“For, as He says, “I wish not the death of the sinner, as that he should turn unto [Me] and live” ( Ezek. xxxiii. 11 ): and in another place He says that He not only wished, but even desired this: and yet these are contrary to each other: for intense wishing is desire.” — the author cites it
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Jerome
“He wills the repentance of a sinner rather than his death, and carries home the poor stray sheep on His own shoulders.” — editor's note: Ezek. xxxiii. 11.
Read the whole comment“Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live,” and again, “turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?”” — editor's note: Ezek. xxxiii. 10, 11.
Read the whole comment“Nevertheless “I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live;” and as it is not they that are whole who need a physician but they that are sick, even after his sin I hold out a hand to the prostrate sinner and exhort him,…” — editor's note: Ezek. xxxiii. 11.
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Tertullian
““But,” say they, “God is ‘good,’ and ‘most good,’ and ‘pitiful-hearted,’ and ‘a pitier,’ and ‘abundant in pitiful-heartedness,’ which He holds ‘dearer than all sacrifice,’ ‘not thinking the sinner’s death of so much worth as his repentance’, ‘a Saviour of all men, most of all of believers.’” — editor's note: Ezek. xviii. 23, 32; xxxiii. 11.
Read the whole comment“…present; to be restored, to wit, as the result of penitential suing: in accordance with that clemency of God which prefers a sinner’s repentance to his death?—for this fundamental ground of your opinion must be universally attacked.” — editor's note: Comp. Ezek. xxxiii. 11, etc.; and see cc. ii., xxii.
Read the whole comment“…of repentance, saying to the people, “Repent thee, and I will save thee;” and again, “I live, saith the Lord, and I will (have) repentance rather than death.”” — editor's note: The substance of this is found in Ezek. xxxiii. 11.
Read the whole comment“Assuredly He had rather have the repentance than the death of the sinner.” — editor's note: Ezek. xxxiii. 11.
Read the whole comment“…feared; be loved, because He prefers mercy to sacrifice; be feared because He dislikes sin; be loved, because He prefers the sinner’s repentance to his death; be feared, because He dislikes the sinners who do not repent.” — editor's note: Ezek. xxxiii. 11.
Read the whole comment“Why should I recount the frequent restoration of the nation itself after the forgiveness of their sins?—by that God, indeed, who will have mercy rather than sacrifice, and a sinner’s repentance rather than his death.” — editor's note: Ezek. xxxiii. 11.
Read the whole comment“How prompt in pardoning David on his confession of his sin—preferring, indeed, the sinner’s repentance to his death, of course because of His gracious attribute of mercy.” — editor's note: Ezek. xxxiii. 11.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“And again: “I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord, but that he should return and live.”” — editor's note: Ezek. xxxiii. 11.
Read the whole comment“Also elsewhere that confession is to be made: “I would rather have the repentance of the sinner than his death.”” — editor's note: Ezek. xxxiii. 11.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- OrigenCatena Aurea on Matthew
“…Christ,” which the Jews were ignorant of; but he added what was more, “the Son of the living God,” who had said by his Prophets, “I live, saith the Lord.” [Eze 33:11] And therefore was He called the living Lord, but in a more especial manner as being eminent above all that had life; for He alone has immortality,…” — the author cites it
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“But had he desired and looked for place and time for repentance, he would perhaps have found Him who has said, “I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked.” [Ezek 33:11]” — the author cites it
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Aphrahat
“For thus it is written in Ezekiel the Prophet, As I live, saith the Lord of lords, I desire not the death of the dead sinner.” — editor's note: Ez. xviii. 23, 32; xxxiii. 11.
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Clement of Alexandria
““I will not,” it is said, “the death of the sinner, as his repentance.”” — editor's note: Ezek. xxxiii. 11, xviii. 23, 32.
Read the whole comment“And they are blotted out by Him “who desireth the repentance rather than the death of a sinner.”” — editor's note: Ezek. xxxiii. 11.
Read the whole comment“The Spirit testifies to what has been said by Ezekiel, declaring, “I desire not the death of the sinner, but that he should turn.”” — editor's note: Ezek. xxxiii. 11.
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Cross-references · 42
Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 4.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.13.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.13.
Cited together in Origen on Matthew 16:13–19 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Origen on Matthew 16:13–19 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XIII.7.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.13.
Cited together in Origen on Matthew 27:1–5 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Origen on Matthew 27:1–5 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Church History V.1.
Cited together in Church History V.1.
Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 4.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 47.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 47.
Cited together in Origen on Matthew 16:13–19 (3) (Catena Aurea) and 1 other place.
Cited together in Church History V.1.
Cited together in Scorpiace Chapter 1.
Cited together in Origen on Matthew 27:1–5 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.115.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.115.
Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 4.
Cited together in Church History V.1.
Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 4.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.23.
Cited together in Scorpiace Chapter 1.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.23.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.23.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.23.
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XIII.7.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.23.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.7.
Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 4.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.115.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.115.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.7.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.7.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.7.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.7.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.115.
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XIII.7.
Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 4.
Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 4.