Cassiodorus

In his own words on Ezekiel

• Ezekiel 3:3

  Honey can be understood as the explicit teaching of wisdom, whereas the comb can represent that known to be stored in the depth, as it were, of the cells. Undoubtedly both are found in the divine Scriptures. They added "to my mouth," for they were indeed proclaiming with their mouths the wisdom that they had swallowed with their throats. The prophet Ezekiel speaks in the same way of the Lord.

  EXPOSITIONS OF THE PSALMS 108:103

• Ezekiel 3:17

  The office of bishop is the highest order in the church. Episcopos means overseer, because with the help of divine grace he guards the Lord's flock from his high seat like a most careful shepherd. As the prophet Ezekiel says, "I have made you a watchman over the house of Israel."

  EXPOSITIONS OF THE PSALMS 108:8

• Ezekiel 18:21

  Once the mind is lent brightness at the very beginning of good works and begins to recognize the truth, you are not to imagine that after sinning a delay ensues by reason of which it is enabled to be heard.

  EXPOSITIONS OF THE PSALMS 5:5

• Ezekiel 18:23

  One person prays to the Lord almost all his life, another is converted in middle age, another is saved at his life's end.… God with merciful patience awaits the hour of our conversion at any time, and so he bears with the guilty and awaits sinners with the words, "It is not my will that a sinner should die, but that he be converted and live." The only requirement is that in this life we confess all our sinning, for here we fail through human frailty.

  EXPOSITIONS OF THE PSALMS 55:10

• Ezekiel 18:28

  God's justice promises scourges to those without hope but mercy to those who hope in him.

  EXPOSITIONS OF THE PSALMS 31:10

• Ezekiel 18:32

  The prayer that frees us from faults wins the heart of the judge and wipes away sins; mercy cannot be withheld from the one who asks for it, as humility fires us to pray unceasingly for forgiveness. All this is achieved by the devoted Lord, for he does not wish to condemn those whom he forewarns.

  EXPOSITIONS OF PSALM 140:1

• Ezekiel 34:16

  In every good deed we are anticipated by the Lord's grace. He deigns to inspire us to make us wish to entreat him.

  EXPOSITIONS OF THE PSALMS 118:10

• Ezekiel 37:21

  So they are truly said to assemble together who hasten with devoted mind to believe in the inseparable Trinity, which is the one God. There follows too the happy change, so that the kingdoms of earth and heaven serve the Lord, and they are then all the more free since they are bound to their Maker in faithful service.

  EXPOSITION OF THE PSALMS 101:23