{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-7638","native_reference":{"book_number":290,"chapter_from":52,"chapter_to":52,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":5,"verse_to":5},"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>: The name of God is in its nature holy, whether we say so or not; but since it is sometimes profaned among sinners, according to the words, \"Through you my name is continually blasphemed among the Gentiles,\" we pray that in us God's name may be hallowed; not that it comes to be holy from our being holy but because it becomes holy in us, when we are made holy and do things worthy of holiness.<br/><i>— MYSTAGOGICAL LECTURES 5:12</i></p><p><b>Eusebius of Caesarea</b>: For he said, \"I found nothing here among them,\" as was made clear in the earlier passage, \"Why did I come, and there was no one? Why did I call, and there was none to hear?\" However, earlier they were violently led away as captives, first by the Egyptians and then by the Assyrians, and were given over on account of their sins. But now they have been taken away for nothing, \"as a gazelle caught in a net,\" by hunters of souls who trap them with nets of wickedness.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON Isaiah 2:40</i></p><p><b>Jerome</b>: Furthermore, according to the anagogical sense, we can say that the people of God of this age willingly descend into Egypt when they are more lovers of pleasures than of God, and do not heed that prophetic message: Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help (Isaiah 31:1). When someone is stained with vices and dwells in a place of waters and rivers, not having the dryness of chastity, then they will be violently handed over to the Assyrians to be ruled by them, who will later accuse and convict them of sin. For they are both enemies and avengers, of whom he speaks to Israel: And now what is to you and the way of Egypt, that you drink the water of Geon: and what is to you and the way of the Assyrians, that you drink the water of the rivers (Jer. II, 18).<br/><i>— Commentary on Isaiah</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: There is indeed a blasphemy that we must avoid completely, namely, that any of us should give a pagan any cause for blasphemy by deceit or injury or insult or some other matter justifying complaint in which the Name is deservedly blamed, so that the Lord is deservedly angry. But if the words \"because of you my name is blasphemed\" cover every blasphemy, then we are all lost, since the whole culture assails the Name, for no fault of ours, with its wicked outcries.… Our name is blessed when we are cursed for keeping our discipline.<br/><i>— ON IDOLATRY 7:14</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"ba83967601daa117b1294f22e17fa2850a0668d997bbfba895c9065ccdb3561c","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":7638,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"89eeed4299fa4b4228422f540ab20611f2594c74967ae0eaf517ffd38a4ccad2","translator":null,"work":null}