Ezekiel 5 in the early church
[Vulgate: Ezechiel]
5 passages quote, allude to, or echo Ezekiel 5, grouped by verse; passages on the same verse are in date order. Verse text from the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). References use the Protestant English Bible's numbering, with a writer's own numbering in brackets where it differs.
Ezekiel 5:1
“As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword, use it as a barber’s razor, and shave your head and beard. Then take a set of scales and divide the hair.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ezek 5:1 | Letter 70.2 · Jerome | allusion, high confidence | ca. 370–419 |
Ezekiel 5:2
When the days of the siege have ended, you are to burn up a third of the hair inside the city; you are also to take a third and slash it with the sword all around the city; and you are to scatter a third to the wind. For I will unleash a sword behind them.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ezek 5:2 | On the Holy Spirit 54 · Didymus the Blind | quotation, high confidence | Greek ca. 360-390; Latin 387-391 |
Ezekiel 5:7
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You have been more insubordinate than the nations around you; you have not walked in My statutes or kept My ordinances, nor have you even conformed to the ordinances of the nations around you.’
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ezek 5:7 | On the Singleness of Clerics 30 · Anonymous | quotation, high confidence | 3rd cent. (disputed) |
| Ezek 5:7 | Apostolic Constitutions 2.60.5 · Anonymous | quotation, high confidence | ca. 380 |
| Ezek 5:7 | Homilies on Matthew 75.5 · John Chrysostom | quotation, high confidence | ca. 390 |