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Ezekiel 34:3 (WEB)
You eat the fat. You clothe yourself with the wool. You kill the fatlings, but you don’t feed the sheep.

Fathers and councils · 4

Cyprian of Carthage, Epistles Letter 2
“…was lost, and have not corrected the wanderer, and have not bound up that which was broken, but have eaten their milk, and been clothed with their wool;” and then also the Lord Himself, fulfilling what had been written in the law and the prophets, teaches, saying, “I am the good shepherd, who lay down my life…” — editor's note: Ezek. xxxiv. 3, 4.
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Cyprian of Carthage, Epistles Letter 53
“Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my sheep of their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding my sheep; neither shall they feed them any more: and I will deliver my sheep from their mouth, and I will feed them with judgment.”” — editor's note: Ezek. xxxiv. 3–6, 10–16.
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Tertullian, On Modesty Chapter 7
“…is weak ye have not tended; what is shattered ye have not bound; what has been driven out ye have not brought back; what has perished ye have not re-sought.”” — editor's note: See Ezek. xxxiv. 1–4.
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Aphrahat, Select Demonstrations Demonstration 10
“On this account the Prophet addresses them, saying to them:—O ye pastors who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture, hear the word of the Lord.” — editor's note: Ezek. xxxiv. 2–4, 9, 10–12, 18, 19.
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