And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them for their deeds.
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Cyril of Alexandria
AD 444
Seemingly he calls “ways” the walking in works and “counsels” the faults from outrageous thoughts. Then, he says, she [Israel] did not go rightly, having turned aside from the straight road. As if marching the footpath of all profanity, they devised the most shameful and absurd things, dishonoring the God of all while turning toward idolatry.
