{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-7540","native_reference":{"book_number":290,"chapter_from":48,"chapter_to":48,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":4,"verse_to":4},"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>Eusebius of Caesarea</b>: These words would not be of any help to you if you had not been already warned. Nevertheless, dwelling in my loving-kindness, I still bear witness and distinguish you from those assembled in Babylon and the Chaldeans about to attack you. Open your eyes! As you see the foretold destruction taking hold when the warriors come from Babylon, you will know with understanding that God has told you these things would happen and you can call on his help when the predicted end strikes. These things are available to you from my words.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON Isaiah 2:33</i></p><p><b>Gregory of Nazianzus</b>: Perchance he will say to me, who am not reformed even by blows, \"I know that you are obstinate and your neck is an iron sinew, the heedless is heedless, and the lawless person acts lawlessly, and for nothing comes correction from heaven and the scourges.\" The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed, as I once reprimanded you by the mouth of Jeremiah: \"The founder melted the silver in vain; your wickednesses are not melted away.\" … May it not be that I should ever, among other chastisements, be thus approached by him who is good, and yet by my own contrariness continue to walk against his goodness. This causes God to walk against me in fury.<br/><i>— ON HIS FATHER'S SILENCE, ORATION 16:11-12</i></p><p><b>Jerome</b>: Behold, you have heard all things that are to come, and yet you conceal the truth in silence. I do not speak of past events, in which my power has often been proven, such as when I led the people out of Egypt, drowned the Egyptians in the Red Sea, gave them the promised land, and subjected various nations to you. But I announce the new things that I am going to do against Babylon, so that the impudence of your mouth may be refuted, you who claim to know what you do not know. From the beginning you have been a transgressor of my commands; and from the womb you were called a transgressor by God, when you were delivered from Egypt, as if you were conceived in my womb, and brought up, and taught. You desired the head of the Egyptian bull, saying: These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you out of the land of Egypt. Therefore, not by your merit, but by my mercy, I have delayed my anger, so that you would not be completely destroyed, and for the sake of the praise of my name, I will restrain you, so that you will follow me like a beast and an unwilling horse with reins.<br/><i>— Commentary on Isaiah</i></p><p><b>Theodoret of Cyrus</b>: Instructed by this passage, the divine Stephen in his turn says to the Jews, \"You stiff-necked, uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your ancestors did, so do you.\" And also through the mouth of the prophet Jeremiah, the God of the universe has declared to them, \"You have had the appearance of a prostitute; you refuse to be ashamed.\" It is this shamelessness that [Isaiah] likewise alludes to by [the phrase] \"brazen forehead.\" The forehead of a brass statue does not blush. Similarly, you no longer blush when you commit evil or when you are confronted or chastised.… In this way he has described with greater clarity their spirit of disobedience. For they voluntarily refused to listen, because they did not even desire to hear the words of God.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON Isaiah 15:48.4-8</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"f5543ca1df3707af57fd4e2503b0405bdfb10ecde5d5165e8f93462fad8a47c4","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":7540,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"ff86bf28ee04b4d60654919cef1e2ac1ebe467f3201c8d079b8178bc20e807c1","translator":null,"work":null}