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Patristic A.D. 749 · Historical Christian Faith commentaries database, on Ezek 20:25 (ON DIVINE IMAGES 2:15)

John of Damascus, on Ezek 20:25

John of Damascus · A.D. 676–749

Ezek 20:25 · Douay-Rheims

“Therefore I also gave them statutes that were not good, and judgments, in which they shall not live.”

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“God finds fault with the commandments of the Old Testament, for he says, "I gave them statutes that were not good and ordinances by which they could not have life," because of their hardness of heart.”

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