Holy Scripture

Ezekiel 24:9

A church father on this verse
“(Ver. 23, 24 onwards) Again, I raised my hand against them in the wilderness, to scatter them among the nations and disperse them in the lands, because they had not performed my judgments, and had rejected my commandments, and had violated my Sabbaths, and their eyes had been after the idols (or thoughts) of their fat…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Ezekiel

Source: Septuagint

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9Therefore thus saith the Lord, I will also make the firebrand great,

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7For her blood is in the midst of her; I have set it upon a smooth rock: I have not poured it out upon the earth, so that the earth should cover it;

8that my wrath should come up for complete vengeance to be taken: I set her blood upon a smooth rock, so as not to cover it.

— Ezekiel 24:9 —

10and I will multiply the wood, and kindle the fire, that the flesh may be consumed, and the liquor boiled away;

11and that it may stand upon the coals, that her brass may be thoroughly heated, and be melted in the midst of her filthiness, and her scum may be consumed,

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