{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-4885","native_reference":{"book_number":330,"chapter_from":18,"chapter_to":18,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":31,"verse_to":31},"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>Cyril of Jerusalem</b>: \"Make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit\" that you may become a subject of joy for the citizens of heaven. For if there is joy \"over one sinner who repents,\" according to the Gospel, how much more will the salvation of so many souls gladden the blessed saints? You have entered on a good and glorious course: run the holy race in good earnest.<br/><i>— Catechetical Lecture 1:1</i></p><p><b>Jerome</b>: (Verse 31.) Turn away and repent from all your iniquities, and iniquity will not be your downfall. Cast away all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed. This message is specifically directed towards the Israelites, urging them to repent and abandon their iniquities or transgressions against God. However, it can also be understood as applicable to both the Israelites and the crowd of Gentiles, encouraging them to forsake their vices and turn to the one who can heal their brokenness.</p><p>And make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Leaving behind the old letter, live in the newness of the spirit. The new heart of the Israelites is to believe in Him whom they had previously denied. The new heart of the gentiles is to abandon idols and despise the worship of the dead, and to believe in Him who is the God of the living.</p><p>And why will you die, house of Israel? It is better, as we have said above, to accept this exhortation in which it is written: Repent and do penance, regarding the person of the Jews whom He does not want to die, and to whom He now speaks: why will you die, house of Israel, who have the fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, of whom it is written: God of the living, not of the dead (Mark 12:27). Why will you die by your own fault, when you owe your life to the merit of the fathers and my mercy?<br/><i>— Commentary on Ezekiel</i></p><p><b>Pachomius the Great</b>: Why are you dying? Do not go into the trap. These are the reminders given to the believers, that by walking in them and striving in the commandments they will do the works worthy of eternal life.<br/><i>— LETTERS 3:9</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"f982963ac0195a75869cfba1be5770614ddc8372d3c5530e22731708e06cf10a","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":4885,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"edb292377270ed0888d4eaca9022b635bfa8ce674cc3ef5f74b6c9f17743606a","translator":null,"work":null}