{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-7576","native_reference":{"book_number":290,"chapter_from":49,"chapter_to":49,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":25,"verse_to":25},"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 Alexandria</b>: Our Lord Jesus Christ came into the house of the strong man … he raided it and, throwing away the broken chains and the bonds of dark hell, he gave him over to the judgment of the great day to be kept for punishment.… Then Christ has conquered, and he has passed the victory on to us.… For he is the sole cause of our salvation. Therefore, he is the boast of the might of the saints, as Paul the most wise says: \"I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.\" …For Christ gave us the ability to overcome the murderous dragon so that we can take spoil from it, and we are saved from it as he sends us the victory to everlasting life for glory, praise and the kingdom of heaven.… For Christ said, \"I have given you authority to tread on snakes and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy.\" … This is just what we take from the strong one, that is, from Christ. Since he is the Lord of powers, we have been saved and have the victory.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON Isaiah 4:4.49:25-26</i></p><p><b>Isidore of Seville</b>: In consoling his people through the prophet, God accordingly promises to judge their enemies.… For the wickedness of the evil ones who customarily tear at the chosen of God with their own teeth. When this happens, the life of the unrighteous is undone while that of the righteous is not, but rather it flourishes. Meanwhile, however, the evil ones are educating the righteous through the training of tribulation so that they will hate this present life and long for the life to come.<br/><i>— THREE BOOKS OF THOUGHTS 3:57.8-9</i></p><p><b>Jerome</b>: Therefore, the Lord who judges those who oppressed Zion, whether he judges their judgement or liberates the children of those who were captured by the giant, he will save and feed his adversaries with their own flesh, and he will make them drunk with wine, so that they will be satisfied not with the death of others, but with their own death. And those who are flesh, because they have lost God's spirit, let them feed on their own flesh. Indeed, the Holy One speaks of this in the Psalms: When those who afflict me come near, to devour my flesh. For it is not the incorporeal spirit, but the flesh that is devoured by the bites of fierce beasts. And then Zion will say: truly all flesh that sees the salvation of God, that the Redeemer and Savior is the one who struggled with Jacob, or the one who helped the strength of Jacob: so that in his suffering, he would bless those who crucify him: Father, forgive them: for they do not know what they are doing.<br/><i>— Commentary on Isaiah</i></p><p><b>Leander of Seville</b>: Well may that ancient ravager [the devil] mourn that he has lost his prey, for we see it is fulfilled as we have heard it foretold by the prophet. \"Yes,\" he said, \"captives can be taken from a warrior and booty rescued from a tyrant.\" The peace of Christ has destroyed the wall of discord built by the devil, and the house that was divided into mutual slaughter is now joined by the cornerstone, which is Christ.<br/><i>— HOMILIES ON THE TRIUMPH OF THE CHURCH</i></p><p><b>Theodoret of Cyrus</b>: For \"it is I,\" he says, who \"am God the first, and I am he for the things to come.\" It is he who has made us and judged us to be worthy of salvation, he who has freed us from the original deception, he who has promised us the kingdom of God, of which may we enjoy the grace of him who has saved us and to whom is due glory for ages of ages.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON Isaiah 15:49.26</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"e2a195b8be6b05a66e9043731c96397761fdc14410a844ca42507650cfc7dced","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":7576,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"12ae533f4592060136812317c9c96eb2427fd13b9a656b9eb55a25f562be0e7c","translator":null,"work":null}