{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-6569","native_reference":{"book_number":650,"chapter_from":12,"chapter_to":12,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":8,"verse_to":8},"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>Apostolic Constitutions</b>: But if any one be maliciously prosecuted by the heathen, because he will not still go along with them to the same excess of riot, let him know that such a one is blessed of God, according as our Lord says in the Gospel: \"Blessed are ye when men shall reproach you, or persecute you, or say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice and be exceeding glad, for your reward is great in heaven.\" If, therefore, any one be slandered and falsely accused, such a one is blessed; for the Scripture says, \"A man that is a reprobate is not tried by God.\" But if any one be convicted as having done a wicked action, such a one not only hurts himself, but occasions the whole body of the Church and its doctrine to be blasphemed; as if we Christians did not practise those things that we declare to be good and honest, and we ourselves shall be reproached by the Lord, that \"they say and do not.\" Wherefore the bishop must boldly reject such as these upon full conviction, unless they change their course of life.<br/><i>— Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book 2</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: Then again he argues from the general custom. Seest thou how he brings up arguments from all quarters, from facts in the Scripture, from its words, from our own notions, from examples in ordinary life? \"But if ye be without chastisement\" and so on. Seest thou that he said what I just mentioned, that it is not possible to be a son without being chastened? For as in families, fathers care not for bastards, though they learn nothing, though they be not distinguished, but fear for their legitimate sons lest they should be indolent, so here. If then not to be chastised is a mark of bastards, we ought to rejoice at chastisement, if this be a sign of legitimacy. \"God dealeth with you as with sons\"; for this very cause.<br/><i>— Homily on Hebrews 29</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: \"If you are not disciplined.\" Where he had sought from the things themselves, namely with all the saints brought forth who had fought through afflictions, now he strives to persuade even from human reasoning.<br/>\"then you are not legitimate, not true sons and daughters at all.\" If, therefore, the sign of illegitimate children is not to be punished, but legitimate children are punished, it is necessary, he says, to rejoice in punishment.<br/><i>— The Pseudo-Oecumenian Catena on Hebrews</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"cd541306073b229643401bf0ba730fca107f8865b9cd989815e0e0091519cbfc","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":6569,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"2daf10c308517a1e11f62506d717f3d0658177bcd126903b66c3d99359a0d3c1","translator":null,"work":null}