Holy Scripture
Ezekiel 16:21
A church father on this verse
“(Vers. 20 seqq.) And it came to pass, says the Lord God, that you took your sons and your daughters, whom you bore to me, and you sacrificed them to be devoured. Is your fornication of little consequence, sacrificing my sons? And you gave them to consecrate them. And after all your abominations and fornications, you d…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
21and didst slay thy children, and gavest them up in offering them to them for an expiation.
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In context
19And thou tookest my bread which I gave thee ( yea I fed thee with fine flour and oil and honey) and didst set them before them for a sweet-smelling savor: yea, it was so, saith the Lord.
20And thou tookest thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou borest, and didst sacrifice these to them to be destroyed. Thou didst go a-whoring as if that were little,
— Ezekiel 16:21 —
22This is beyond all thy fornication, and thou didst not remember thine infancy, when thou wast naked and bare, and didst live though defiled in thy blood.
23And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, saith the Lord,