{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-1917","native_reference":{"book_number":540,"chapter_from":5,"chapter_to":5,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":9,"verse_to":9},"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>Ambrosiaster</b>: We have to put our energy into good works in order to please God.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES</i></p><p><b>Clement of Alexandria</b>: And comparison obtains in the case of things that fall under resemblance; as the more valiant man is more valiant among the valiant, and most valiant among cowards. Whence he adds, \"Wherefore we strive, whether present or absent, to be accepted with Him,\" that is, God, whose work and creation are all things, both the world and things supramundane.<br/><i>— The Stromata Book 4</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"Wherefore also we make it our aim whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing unto him.\" 'For what we seek for is this,' saith he, 'whether we be there or here, to live according to His will; for this is the principal thing. So that by this thou hast the kingdom already in possession without a probation.' For lest when they had arrived at so great a desire of being there, they should again be disquieted at its being so long first, in this he gives them already the chief of those good things. And what is this? To be well \"pleasing.\" For as to depart is not absolutely good, but to do so in [God's] favor, which is what makes departing also become a good; so to remain here is not absolutely grievous, but to remain offending Him. Deem not then that departure from the body is enough; for virtue is always necessary. For as when he spoke of a Resurrection, he allowed [them] not by it alone to be of good courage, saying, \"If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked;\" so also having showed a departure, lest thou shouldest think that this is enough to save thee, he added that it is needful that we be well pleasing.<br/><i>— Homily 10 on 2 Corinthians</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: Then he says even to all: \"We therefore earnestly desire to be acceptable unto God, whether absent or present; for we must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ Jesus.\" If all of us, then all of us wholly; if wholly, then our inward man and outward too-that is, our bodies no less than our souls.<br/><i>— On the Resurrection of the Flesh</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"49ca685e5258b223212f78004eb261a4620cc6850f063aff365f51bc6224261f","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":1917,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"7eacf203d782bc828704f4771a968f853a2b72833e96ec06a21b57768262d2ac","translator":null,"work":null}