Holy Scripture

Ezekiel 20:25

A church father on this verse
“Having forgotten the benefits and marvels performed by God, they set up the head of a calf. For this reason, therefore, precepts are given to them by which they are tested. Hence it is that through the prophet Ezekiel the Lord says to them, "I gave you precepts and ordinances that were not good, by which you will not…”
Origen of Alexandria, 3th c. — HOMILIES ON EXODUS 7:2

Source: Septuagint

Original

25So I gave them commandments that were not good, and ordinances in which they should not live.

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23I lifted up my hand against them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the Gentiles, and disperse them in the countries;

24because they kept not mine ordinances, and rejected my commandments, and profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes went after the imaginations of their fathers.

— Ezekiel 20:25 —

26And I will defile them by their own decrees, when I pass through upon everyone that opens the womb, that I may destroy them.

27Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the Lord: Hitherto have your fathers provoked me in their trespasses in which they transgressed against me.

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