{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-4273","native_reference":{"book_number":560,"chapter_from":3,"chapter_to":3,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":13,"verse_to":13},"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>Gaius Marius Victorinus</b>: When some hear that Paul suffers tribulations, they may grow faint in faith. To prevent this he argues, in effect: \"I pray on account of what has been revealed to me that you should not grow faint through my tribulations. These tribulations I am suffering are not due to anything I have caused but rather because you are either weak in faith or now wavering, or because you are making some unnecessary additions to the faith. That is the reason I endure these trials. I am now hoping to recall you to true discipline and observance so that you will not depart from Christ, having your hope in Christ alone. For this is your glory.\"<br/><i>— EPISTLE TO THE Ephesians 1.3.13</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: How is it \"for them?\" How is it \"their glory?\" It is because God so loved them, as to give even the Son for them, and to afflict His servants for them: for it was in order that they might attain so many blessings, that Paul was in prison. Surely this was from God's exceeding love towards them: it is what God also saith concerning the Prophets, \"I have slain them by the words of my mouth.\" But how was it that they fainted, when another was afflicted? He means, they were troubled, were distressed. This also he says when writing to the Thessalonians, \"that no man be moved by these afflictions.\" For not only ought we not to grieve, but we ought even to rejoice. If ye find consolation in the forewarning, we tell you beforehand that here we have tribulation. And why pray? Because thus hath the Lord ordered.<br/><i>— Homily on Ephesians 7</i></p><p><b>Origen of Alexandria</b>: One person will say that he attaches the words \"which is your glory\" to the tribulations … another to the boldness or else to the access or the faith. For boldness [or freedom of speech] is the glory to the one who possesses it, and access can be called the glory of the one who has access to God and faith the glory of the one with faith.<br/><i>— EPISTLE TO THE EPHESIANS</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"2027b0158dcdf4d2837bc1c5db69a1300da3a49c3dd5f8f8824f8413a1c3032a","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":4273,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"b433dd611827ebfb1297b7234d9d0f00f25f2a0e129562899dfc57a3e53f2ac6","translator":null,"work":null}