Ezekiel 2:9
Douay-Rheims
And I looked, and behold, a hand was sent to me, wherein was a book rolled up: and he spread it before me, and it was written within and without: and there were written in it lamentations, and canticles, and woe.
Hippolytus of Rome
The scroll symbolizes the prophets and the apostles. In it the Old Testament was written on the reverse and the New on the obverse. Moreover, the scroll symbolizes the secret, the spiritual teaching—and in such a dignified manner that it may be read on both sides. In reality it is of such a kind that there is a connection between reading the outside and understanding the inside.
Source details
A.D. 235 · on Ezek 2:9 (FRAGMENT 3)
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.