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Ezekiel 40:2Ezek.40.2

In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me upon a very high mountain, by which [was] as the frame of a city on the south.

KJV

Hebrew original

בְּ/מַרְא֣וֹת אֱלֹהִ֔ים הֱבִיאַ֖/נִי אֶל אֶ֣רֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וַ/יְנִיחֵ֗/נִי אֶל הַ֤ר גָּבֹ֨הַּ֙ מְאֹ֔ד וְ/עָלָ֥י/ו כְּ/מִבְנֵה עִ֖יר מִ/נֶּֽגֶב

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

dans le pays d'Israël. Il m'y transporta, dans des visions divines, et me déposa sur une montagne très élevée, où se trouvait au midi comme une ville construite.

KJV

In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me upon a very high mountain, by which [was] as the frame of a city on the south.

Patristic reading

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  • John of Ephesus

    Ecclesiastical History

    EH is somewhat peculiar. It focuses on the vision of an anonymous holy man (inspired by the Book of Ezekiel 40:2) of a broad mountain with many splendid churches. He then saw an attack by patriarch John Scholasticus who destroyed and suppressed the thriving Severan communities on…
  • John of Ephesus

    Ecclesiastical History

    936) and Schönfelder (1862) noticed that John of Ephesus was inspired for this vision by the Book of Ezekiel 40:2 where the New Jerusalem is promised and revealed to the prophet (Joyce 2009, 222–223); for the Peshitta version, see (Gillian et al. 2015, 240–241). Crucially, both t…
  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 112 (Migne)

    rsationis, ut in Ezechiele: «Quasi aedificium civitatis vergentis ad Austrum [Note: [Col. 0869] 14 Ezech. XL, 2.] ,» quod sancta Ecclesia fervori sanctae conversationis insit. Auster, secretum coeli, ut in Job: «Qui facit interiora Austri [Note: [Col. 0869] 15 Job IX, 9.] ,»…

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