{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-3302","native_reference":{"book_number":510,"chapter_from":9,"chapter_to":9,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":16,"verse_to":16},"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>Bede</b>: For I will show him how much he must suffer for my name. He should not (he says) be feared as a persecutor, but rather be embraced as a brother, who is ready to endure the adversities which he had inflicted upon the saints, together with the saints.<br/><i>— Commentary on Acts</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: But when Ananias heard that Paul was blind, he rejoiced, and almost with his words he says this: \"He is well off, let him remain blind; why do you order me to open his eyes? that he may be conquered again? that he may be punished again?\" Therefore he says: \"Not only will he do no harm, but he will also endure many things on my behalf.\"<br/><i>— Commentary on Acts</i></p><p><b>Paulus Orosius</b>: When Paul was saved there where he had bound Christ by persecuting him, he would be afflicted with suffering for Christ, right up to his own death, but [he would] be glorified in the resurrection. So it is, because \"mercy and truth go always before the face of God;\" so that if a voluntary sacrifice of an afflicted spirit and a contrite heart is offered in time by the lamenting person, truth arises in mercy, and in the end mercy is exalted over judgment.<br/><i>— DEFENSE AGAINST THE PELAGIANS 14</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"a4e5e2d7607bcaccc50315b1f58d648596cc685622b305cbf9316c0b0a8e6c7e","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":3302,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"5ac584924981b66e965951d4f6e74ffa6ed66de081415bf932de229b3bf794d1","translator":null,"work":null}