Fathers

Loading…

What the Fathers say

Ezekiel 4:3

Western Saints

Jerome

And you shall take for yourself an iron pan: and you shall place it as an iron wall between you and the city, and you shall set your face against it, and it shall be for a siege, and you shall surround it. This is a sign for the house of Israel. …

Commentary on Ezekiel ↗

Gregory the Dialogist

"And take to yourself an iron frying pan, and you shall place it as an iron wall between yourself and the city, and you shall set your face firmly against it, and it shall be under siege, and you shall surround it. It is a sign for the house of Israel." Because iron is a strong metal, and food is fried in a frying pan, what is signified by the iron frying pan except the strong frying of spiritual zeal? …

Homilies on Ezekiel, Book 1, Homily 12 ↗