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Commentary on Ezekiel

Commentariorum in Ezechielem libri XVI

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Only the comment on Ezekiel 44:22 (priests may not marry a widow or a divorced woman) is published.

  1. 44.22Jerome explains Ezekiel's rule that priests marry only virgins or priests' widows, reading the widow and divorced woman as the Synagogue and heretics, and the virgin as the church's teaching.

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Author
Jerome
Attribution
authentic
Standing
Honoured by the Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant traditions. Honoured as a saint or in a church calendar by: Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant.
Date
410-414 (probable)
Written at
Bethlehem, Palestine
Language
Latin
Genre
commentary
Reference system
chapter.verse of the passage commented on
SBL abbreviation
Ezech.Not yet checked
Text from
J.-P. Migne, ed., Patrologiae cursus completus, series Latina, vol. 25 (Paris, 1845) (Printed edition (Migne) in the public domain; digital text CC BY-SA 4.0)