"Ezekiel" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... never be after that of any great esteem in the house of God, but if the Lord will admit them to favour and forgiveness: O exceeding and undeserved mercy! See Ezekiel xliv. 10-14. ...
— The Jerusalem Sinner Saved • John Bunyan
... been very much instructed to-day in reading and reflecting on the 37th chapter of Ezekiel. When the prophet was asked if the dry bones could live, he was wise enough cautiously to answer, "O Lord God, thou knowest;" but when he was commanded to prophesy unto them, and say, "O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord," this was hard work, yet there was no conferring with flesh and blood. ...
— Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel • John Yeardley
... mother indeed maintains that he, Odysseus, is my father, but I myself know it not, for no man yet hath known his own origin." And this suspicion is harbored by Telemachus about Penelope, the most virtuous of women! Beautiful, eh? And here we have the prophet Ezekiel: "The fool saith; behold here is my father, but who can tell whose loins engendered him." That's quite clear! And what have we here? The History of Russian Literature by Merslkow. Alexander Puschkin, Russia's greatest poet, died of torture front ...
— Plays: The Father; Countess Julie; The Outlaw; The Stronger • August Strindberg
... 40.; Acts xxviii. 25.; Romans xi. 8.), and, as in Matthew, is referred to Isaiah. But, in the Old Testament, there is earlier authority for its use in Deuteronomy xxix. 4. It occurs also in Jeremiah v. 21.; in Ezekiel xii. 2., and, with a somewhat different application, in the Psalms, ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 79, May 3, 1851 • Various
... of these calamities the contemporary prophets Jeremiah and Ezekiel ministered. They differed greatly in ...
— Usury - A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View • Calvin Elliott
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