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Ezekiel 40:6

Western Saints

Jerome

The Apostle Paul, desiring the Ephesians to understand more sacred things, prays that they may be filled with the wisdom and love of the Lord, so that rooted and founded, they may be able to know and comprehend the breadth, and length, and depth, and height, and the profound riches of Him. …

Commentary on Ezekiel ↗

Gregory the Dialogist

And measured the threshold of the gate, which was one reed broad. And he measured the threshold of the gate with one reed in width, that is, one threshold with one reed in width. Why, after "the threshold of the gate" was said, is "one threshold" immediately added, unless because it openly indicates that another threshold is mentioned still further below? Moreover, the gate rises from the threshold so that it may be a gate. …

Homilies on Ezekiel, Book 2, Homily 3 ↗