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Old Testament XIII: Ezekiel, Daniel is unavailable, but you can change that!

Over forty church fathers are cited in the commentary on Ezekiel, some of whom are here translated into English for the first time, but pride of place goes to four significant extant works: the homilies of Origen and Gregory the Great, and the commentaries of Jerome and Theodoret of Cyr, thus bridging East and West, North and South. A similar array of fathers are found within the commentary on...

The book of the prophet Ezekiel—a name that means “God strengthens”—is an unusual as well as an engaging read. It has been handled with long tongs by Jewish and Christian traditions from the beginning. Ezekiel the son of Buzi (Ezek 1:3) was a temple priest who appears to have been deported from Jerusalem to Babylonia in about 597 B.C., together with King Jehoiachin and other leading citizens of the defeated Judah. He received a call to be a prophet by
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