{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-366","native_reference":{"book_number":530,"chapter_from":6,"chapter_to":6,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":4,"verse_to":4},"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>: Therefore the apostle wished wise, holy, and faithful persons who were well established in the various places to be judges of such matters, and not persons who, in preaching, traveled about here and there.… If wise judges were lacking, he wished even the lowly and contemptible to be appointed so that the affairs of Christians might not be brought to the public eye.<br/><i>— On the Work of Monks 29</i></p><p><b>Cyprian</b>: And to return to the praise of martyrdom, there is a word of the blessed Paul, who says; \"Know ye not that they who run in a race strive many, but one receiveth the prize? But do ye so run, that all of you may obtain.\" Moreover also elsewhere, that be may exhort us to martyrdom, he has called us fellow-heirs with Christ; nay, that he might omit nothing, he says, \"If ye are dead with Christ, why, as if living in the world, do ye make distinctions? \" Because, dearest brethren, we who bear the rewards of resurrection, who seek for the day of judgment, who, in fine, are trusting that we shall reign with Christ, ought to be dead to the world. For you can neither desire martyrdom till you have first hated the world, nor attain to God's reward unless you have loved Christ. And he who loves Christ does not love the world. For Christ was given up by the world, even as the world also was given up by Christ; as it is written, \"The world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.\" The world has been an object of affection to none whom the Lord has not previously condemned; nor could he enjoy eternal salvation who has gloried in the life of the world. That is the very voice of Christ, who says: \"He that loveth his life in this world, shall lose it in the world to come; but he that hateth his life in this world, shall find it in the world to come.\" Moreover, also, the Apostle Paul says: \"Be ye imitators of me, as I also am of Christ.\" And the same elsewhere says: \"I wish that all of you, if it were possible, should be imitators of me.\"<br/><i>— Pseudo-Cyprian On the Glory of Martyrdom</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"If then ye have to judge things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are of no account in the Church.\"</p><p>Wishing to instruct us as forcibly as possible that they ought not to commit themselves to those without, whatsoever the matter may be; having raised what seemed to be an objection, he answers it in the first instance. For what he says is something like this: Perhaps some one will say, \"No one among you is wise, nor competent to pass sentence; all are contemptible.\" Now what follows? \"Even though none be wise,\" says he, \"I bid you entrust things to those who are of least weight.\"<br/><i>— Homily on 1 Corinthians 16</i></p><p><b>Severian of Gabala</b>: The lowest person in the church is preferable in judgment to an unbeliever.<br/><i>— PAULINE COMMENTARY FROM THE GREEK CHURCH</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"ddfde3bd7825d304cca397932f282eb2df95ec0aaa8d143695ae46415b32360c","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":366,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"294fa77b13f4a313748daac53f23ba75c771722c7169ccefb1cbc9c71902b081","translator":null,"work":null}