{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-6536","native_reference":{"book_number":650,"chapter_from":11,"chapter_to":11,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":15,"verse_to":15},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: What sort of \"country\" was this? Was it that which they had left? By no means. For what hindered them if they wished, from returning again, and becoming citizens? But they sought that which is in Heaven. Thus they desired their departure hence, and so they pleased God; for \"God was not ashamed to be called their God.\"<br/><i>— Homily on Hebrews 24</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: \"And if they had been.\" For that they sought the one in heaven is clear from this. For if they sought their own from which God had expelled them, they had the strength to return. For they had time for this to return to their own. But now, seeking a homeland, not returning from which they went out, it is clear that they desire something better and heavenly.<br/><i>— The Pseudo-Oecumenian Catena on Hebrews</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"4f5a9032738a2ee512e831929c46fb44b09c71d173178a82e42bdddcde6604d5","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":6536,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"74a6030299d0bba507b9ea73f7347f6ec547164d994e1b7bb10fc6a2205ffc3a","translator":null,"work":null}