{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-523","native_reference":{"book_number":690,"chapter_from":3,"chapter_to":3,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":23,"verse_to":23},"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>Augustine of Hippo</b>: And what are those commandments? \"This,\" saith he, \"is His commandment, That we should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another.\" Ye see that this is the commandment: ye see that whoso doeth aught against this commandment, doeth the sin from which \"every one that is born of God\" is free. \"As He gave us commandment:\" that we love one another.<br/><i>— Ten Homilies on 1 John 6</i></p><p><b>Bede</b>: And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, etc. He placed the commandment in the singular number and subsequently added mandates to it, namely faith and love, because clearly these cannot be separated from each other. For neither can we rightly love one another without faith in Christ, nor can we truly believe in the name of Jesus Christ without fraternal love. And he says, let us love one another, as he gave commandment to us. That is, with pure love, not like thieves or perpetrators of any other crimes, who indeed love each other but not chastely. But he gave commandment to us when he said: This is my commandment, that you love one another, as I have loved you (John XV). For what is, As I have loved you, except: love for the purpose that I loved you, namely, that you may reach the heavenly kingdoms? And by what reward are these commands of faith and love kept? It follows:<br/><i>— Commentary on the Catholic Epistles</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: And this is His commandment: that we should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ.<br/>And what commandment do we keep? That which says: Have mutual love among yourselves. (Jn. 13:35)<br/>Therefore, since we have received the command to love one another with the faith that is in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, we have done this; through this we know that the grace He has given us through His Spirit is firmly established in us. It should be noted that it is often found in the New Testament, \"Believe in the name of our Lord Jesus.\" (Acts 16:31) But what does this name mean? Nothing other than glory, purpose, or good reputation. Indeed, glory and good reputation, as when it is said: \"How wonderful is your name in all the earth (Ps. 81:1):\" purpose and will, as in this place, and when it is said: \"Repent, and let each of you be baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.\" (Acts 2:38) For that is, in His will. But what is the will of the Lord Jesus? \"That all nations be baptized in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.\" (Matt. 28:19)<br/><i>— Commentary on 1 John</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"975892afd14514280d4c637a03778ecf6ad83cd1ccfe989e35e8f7c1d9a40a01","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":523,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"495d84962d2b55c89074da8110a40d2d51aad423dad56ca3a076d359d1a7196c","translator":null,"work":null}