{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-312","native_reference":{"book_number":530,"chapter_from":3,"chapter_to":3,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":7,"verse_to":7},"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>: In relation to God's honor, human honor is nothing. As far as the ministry is concerned, a man may be honored in the way that a servant is honored.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES</i></p><p><b>Augustine of Hippo</b>: Since the apostles would not have accomplished anything if God had not given the increase, how much more true is this of you or me, or anyone else of our time, who fancies himself as a teacher.<br/><i>— LETTER 193</i></p><p><b>Irenaeus</b>: For it was requisite that certain facts should be announced beforehand by the fathers in a paternal manner, and others prefigured by the prophets in a legal one, but others, described after the form of Christ, by those who have received the adoption; while in one God are all things shown forth. For although Abraham was one, he did in himself prefigure the two covenants, in which some indeed have sown, while others have reaped; for it is said, \"In this is the saying true, that it is one 'people' who sows, but another who shall reap;\" but it is one God who bestows things suitable upon both-seed to the sower, but bread for the reaper to eat. Just as it is one that planteth, and another who watereth, but one God who giveth the increase. For the patriarchs and prophets sowed the word [concerning] Christ, but the Church reaped, that is, received the fruit. For this reason, too, do these very men (the prophets) also pray to have a dwelling-place in it, as Jeremiah says, \"Who will give me in the desert the last dwelling-place?\" in order that both the sower and the reaper may rejoice together in the kingdom of Christ, who is present with all those who were from the beginning approved by God, who granted them His Word to be present with them.<br/><i>— Against Heresies Book 4</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: What doest thou, O man? Thou thinkest to pull down thy neighbor's; but before his thou pullest down thine own. Seest thou not them that are gardeners, that are husbandmen, how they all concur in one object? One hath dug the soil, another planted, a third carefully covered the roots, another watereth what is planted, another hedges it round and fortifies it, another drives off the cattle; and all look to one end, the safety of the plant. Here, however, it is not so: but I plant indeed myself, and another shakes and disturbs the plant. At least, allow it to get nicely fixed, that it may be strong enough to resist the assault. Thou destroyest not my work, but abandonest thine own. I planted, thou oughtest to have watered. If then thou shake it, thou hast torn it up by the roots, and hast not wherein to display thy watering. But thou seest the planter highly esteemed. Fear not: neither am I anything, nor thou. \"For neither is he that planteth nor he that watereth any thing;\" one's is the work, God's. So it is with Him thou fighteth and warrest, in plucking up what is planted.<br/><i>— Homily 27 on 2 Corinthians</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"So then, neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth, but God that giveth the increase.\"</p><p>Do you observe the manner in which he soothes them, so that they should not be too much irritated, on hearing, \"Who is this person,\" and \"Who is that?\" \"Nay, both are invidious, namely, both the saying, 'Who is this person? Who the other,'\" and the saying, that \"neither he that planteth nor he that watereth is any thing.\" How then does he soften these expressions? First, By attaching the contempt to his own person, \"Who is Paul, and who Apollos?\" and next, by referring the whole to God who gave all things. For after he had said, \"Such a person planted,\" and added, \"He that planteth is nothing,\" he subjoined, \"but God that giveth the increase.\" Nor does he stop even here, but applies again another healing clause.<br/><i>— Homily on 1 Corinthians 8</i></p><p><b>Methodius of Olympus</b>: The apostle certainly, after assigning the planting and watering to art and earth and water, conceded the growth to God alone, where he says, \"Neither is he that planteth anything, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.\"<br/><i>— Methodius From the Discourse on the Resurrection</i></p><p><b>Theodoret of Cyrus</b>: Our labor is in vain without the help of God.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON THE FIRST EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 180</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"3e965ca9c0134db4071c712e7aa0d953a74a1e8e106cce0d6e1422fbd55a82b5","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":312,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"936cb6ea3705401510e5f630d5e17980160f3b623626b522cb958096ab7f0ef3","translator":null,"work":null}