Ezekiel 8:14 (WEB)
Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD’s house which was toward the north; and I saw the women sit there weeping for Tammuz.
Fathers and councils · 3
Tertullian
Further Proofs, from Ezekiel. Summary of the Prophetic Argument Thus Far. For, again, it is for these deserts of yours that Ezekiel announces your ruin as about to come: and not only in this age—a ruin which has…
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Cyprian of Carthage
“And since it behoves all by all means to keep discipline, much more is it right that overseers and deacons should be careful for this, that they may afford an example and instruction to others concerning their conversation and character.” — editor's note: [This abomination may have lingered in Africa much longer that elsewhere among the Punic converts from Canaanite manners. Ezek. viii. 13, 14.]
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Jerome
“…is, that most venerable spot in the whole world of which the psalmist sings: “the truth hath sprung out of the earth,” was overshadowed by a grove of Tammuz, that is of Adonis; and in the very cave where the infant Christ had uttered His earliest cry lamentation was made for the paramour of Venus.” — editor's note: Ezek. viii. 14.
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Cross-references · 12
Cited together in Epistles Letter 61.
Cited together in Epistles Letter 61.
Cited together in Epistles Letter 61.
Cited together in Epistles Letter 61.
Cited together in Epistles Letter 61.
Cited together in Epistles Letter 61.
Cited together in Epistles Letter 61.
Cited together in Epistles Letter 61.
Cited together in Epistles Letter 61.
Cited together in Epistles Letter 61.
Cited together in Epistles Letter 61.
Cited together in Epistles Letter 61.