John Chrysostom, on Ezek 18:23

“Is it my will that a sinner should die, saith the Lord God, and not that he should be converted from his ways, and live?”

“If it had not been his will that they should hear and be saved, he ought to have been silent, not to have spoken in parables. But now by this very thing he stirs them up, even by speaking under a veil.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.