Commentary on Ezekiel

Basil of Caesarea (330–379)

We believe that the Spirit is present everywhere, while the rest of the bodiless powers are circumscribed by place.

Whoever is stretching forward, like a wheel, touching the earth with a small part of itself, is really such as that wheel was, about which Ezekiel spoke.

It is of the greatest importance that the superior [in a religious community] be convinced that if he fails to offer his brother the proper guidance, he will draw on himself heavy and inescapable wrath, for his blood will be required at his hands.

You have given a sign, the blood itself of a lamb without blemish, slain for the sin of the world. And Ezekiel says that a sign was given on the foreheads of the persons.

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• More works by Basil of Caesarea

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