Holy Scripture

Ezekiel 18:25

A church father on this verse
“(Verse 25.) And you said: The way of the Lord is not fair. Hear, O house of Israel: Is not my way fair? Are not your ways unfair? Give reasons why the judgment of the Lord is just. Do you think, he says, that I am unfair, that I will render the sins of the fathers to the children (Deut. 24); and while others eat sour…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Ezekiel

Source: Septuagint

Original

25Yet ye have said, The way of the Lord is not straight. Hear now, all the house of Israel; will not my way be straight? Is your way straight?

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In context

23Shall I at all desire the death of the sinner, saith the Lord, as I desire that he should turn from his evil way, and live?

24But when the righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, according to all the transgressions which the transgressor has wrought, none of his righteousness which he has wrought shall be at all remembered: in his trespass wherein he has trespassed, and in his sins wherein he has sinned, in them shall he die.

— Ezekiel 18:25 —

26When the righteous turns away from his righteousness and commits a trespass, and dies in the trespass which he has committed, he shall even die in it.

27And when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and shall do judgment and justice, he has kept his soul,

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