Книга пророка Иезекииля, Глава 13, стих 19. Толкования стиха

FORGIVENESS CAN BE COSTLY. GREGORY THE GREAT: Anyone who condemns a righteous person is putting to death one who is not dying; and one who tries to absolve a guilty person from his punishment is striving to bring back to life one who is not living. All cases must be carefully considered, and only then the power of binding and loosing used. The pastor must look at the sin and the repentance following after the sin, so that his sentence absolves those to whom almighty God grants the grace of sorrow. There is true absolution on the part of the one presiding only when it is in accord with the decision of the internal judge. FORTY GOSPEL HOMILIES 26.

PROPHETS DEVALUE TRUE TEACHING. CHRYSOSTOM: There were probably in the time of our ancestors also some who… “did the works of the false prophets”;… a thing, by the way, done (I think) by some even today. When, for example, we say that he who calls his brother a fool will go into hell fire, others will say, what? Impossible, they say. And again, when we say that the “covetous person is an idolater,” in this too again they make excuses and say the expression is hyperbolical. And in this way they underrate and explain away all the commandments. HOMILIES ON EPHESIANS 18.

При пророке Иезекииле монашества совсем было, так как оно явилось только в христианское время, а потому указанное место к женскому монашеству никак не может относиться, ибо в нем говорится о языческих обрядах („чародейные мешочки": ст. *20), слова пророка были обращены к ложным пророкам, предвещающим ложь: ст. 6, а потому, только по крайнему невежеству и полному отсутствию понимания истиннаго смысла Свящ. Писания можно приводить подобные тексты против монашества.