THEOSISTheodoret of Cyrus
Through your schemes, you have amplified their malicious efforts, and in peril, they shall triumph through their wrongdoing.
Ezekiel 16:47Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
But neither hast thou walked in their ways, nor hast thou done a little less than they according to their wickednesses: thou hast done almost more wicked things than they in all thy ways.
וְלֹ֤א בְדַרְכֵיהֶן֙ הָלַ֔כְתְּ וּבְתוֹעֲבֽוֹתֵיהֶ֖ן עשיתי עָשִׂ֑ית כִּמְעַ֣ט קָ֔ט וַתַּשְׁחִ֥תִי מֵהֵ֖ן בְּכָל־דְּרָכָֽיִךְ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Ezek 16:51And Samaria committed not half thy sins: but thou hast surpassed them with thy crimes, and hast justified thy sisters by all thy abominations which thou hast done.
- Ezek 5:6And she hath despised my judgments, so as to be more wicked than the Gentiles; and my commandments, more than the countries that are round about her: for they have cast off my judgments, and have not walked in my commandments.
- Ezek 5:7Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because you have surpassed the Gentiles that are round about you, and have not walked in my commandments, and have not kept my judgments, and have not done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you:
- Ezek 16:48As I live, saith the Lord God, thy sister Sodom herself, and her daughters, have not done as thou hast done, and thy daughters.
- Ezek 8:17And he said to me: Surely thou hast seen, O son of man: is this a light thing to the house of Juda, that they should commit these abominations which they have committed here: because they have filled the land with iniquity, and have turned to provoke me to anger? and behold they put a branch to their nose.
- John 15:21But all these things they will do to you for my name's sake: because they know not him that sent me.
- John 15:22If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin: but now they have no excuse for their sin.
- 1 Cor 5:1It is absolutely heard that there is fornication among you and such fornication as the like is not among the heathens: that one should have his father's wife.