{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-1872","native_reference":{"book_number":540,"chapter_from":2,"chapter_to":2,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":17,"verse_to":17},"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>: Paul is alluding to various false apostles who used to corrupt the Word of God through bad interpretation. Some of them were so zealous for Jewish tradition that they did not teach properly about Christ.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES</i></p><p><b>Ignatius of Antioch</b>: For some are in the habit of carrying about the name [of Jesus Christ] in wicked guile, while yet they practise things unworthy of God, whom ye must flee as ye would wild beasts. For they are ravening dogs, who bite secretly, against whom ye must be on your guard, inasmuch as they are men who can scarcely be cured. There is one Physician who is possessed both of flesh and spirit; both made and not made; God existing in flesh; true life in death; both of Mary and of God; first possible and then impossible, even Jesus Christ our Lord.<br/><i>— Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians</i></p><p><b>Irenaeus</b>: From all such persons, therefore, it behooves us to keep aloof, but to adhere to those who, as I have already observed, do hold the doctrine of the apostles, and who, together with the order of priesthood (presbyterii ordine), display sound speech and blameless conduct for the confirmation and correction of others. In this way, Moses, to whom such a leadership was entrusted, relying on a good conscience, cleared himself before God, saying, \"I have not in covetousness taken anything belonging to one of these men, nor have I done evil to one of them.\" In this way, too, Samuel, who judged the people so many years, and bore rule over Israel without any pride, in the end cleared himself, saying, \"I have walked before you from my childhood even unto this day: answer me in the sight of God, and before His anointed (Christi ejus); whose ox or whose ass of yours have I taken, or over whom have I tyrannized, or whom have I oppressed? or if I have received from the hand of any a bribe or [so much as] a shoe, speak out against me, and I will restore it to you.\" And when the people had said to him, \"Thou hast not tyrannized, neither hast thou oppressed us neither hast thou taken ought of any man's hand,\" he called the Lord to witness, saying, \"The Lord is witness, and His Anointed is witness this day, that ye have not found ought in my hand. And they said to him, He is witness.\" In this strain also the Apostle Paul, inasmuch as he had a good conscience, said to the Corinthians: \"For we are not as many, who corrupt the Word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ;\" \"We have injured no man, corrupted no man, circumvented no man.\"<br/><i>— Against Heresies Book 4</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"For we are not as the rest, which corrupt the word of God.\"</p><p>'For even if we use great sounding words, yet we declared nothing to be our own that we achieved, but all Christ's. For we will not imitate the false apostles; the men who say that most is of themselves.' For this is \"to corrupt,\" when one adulterates the wine; when one sells for money what he ought to give freely. For he seems to me to be here both taunting them in respect to money, and again hinting at the very thing I have said, as that they mingle their own things with God's; which is the charge Isaiah brings when he said, \"Thy vintners mingle wine with water:\" for even if this was said of wine, yet one would not err in expounding it of doctrine too. 'But we,' saith he, 'do not so: but such as we have been entrusted with, such do we offer you, pouring out the word undiluted.'<br/><i>— Homily 5 on 2 Corinthians</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: Whence he added, \"But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.\"</p><p>'We do not,' saith he 'beguile you and so preach, as conferring a gift on you, or as bringing in and mingling somewhat from ourselves, \"but as of God;\" that is, we do not say that we confer any thing of our own, but that God hath given all.' For \"of God\" means this; To glory in nothing as if we had it of our own, but to refer every thing to Him. \"Speak we in Christ.\" Not by our own wisdom, but instructed by the power that cometh from Him. Those who glory speak not in this way, but as bringing in something from themselves.<br/><i>— Homily 5 on 2 Corinthians</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: Whence he elsewhere also turns them into ridicule, saying, \"For what hast thou that thou didst not receive? but if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory as if thou hadst not received it.\" This is the highest virtue, to refer every thing to God, to consider nothing to be our own, to do nothing out of regard to men's opinion, but to what God willeth. For He it is that requireth the account. Now however this order is reversed: and of Him that shall sit upon the tribunal and require the account, we have no exceeding fear, yet tremble at those who stand and are judged with us.<br/><i>— Homily 5 on 2 Corinthians</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"f1adb03f0d932f08efc071bdab1ae6e0aeee589a6773627b23c5f369523a794b","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":1872,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"7ebc228400a1d4026270b84e9a544fd6882160a04478d88487aa4b1541dc0ab5","translator":null,"work":null}