{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-3587","native_reference":{"book_number":340,"chapter_from":12,"chapter_to":12,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":3,"verse_to":3},"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>Ambrose of Milan</b>: Is he not good, who exalted the earth to heaven, so that, just as the bright companies of stars reflect his glory in the sky, as in a mirror, so the choirs of apostles, martyrs and priests, shining like glorious stars, might give light throughout the world.<br/><i>— Exposition of the Christian Faith 2.2.24</i></p><p><b>Ambrose of Milan</b>: Death … is entered on for a time and then … is put aside. He has shown, too, that the course of the life that is to be after death will be better than that which before death is passed in pain and sorrow. For the life after death is compared with the stars, while our life here is condemned to misery.<br/><i>— On the Death of Satyrus 2.66</i></p><p><b>Apostolic Constitutions</b>: Gabriel speaks to Daniel.… Therefore the most holy Gabriel foretold that the saints should shine like the stars: for his sacred name did witness to them, that they might understand the truth. Nor is a resurrection only declared for the martyrs but for all people, righteous and unrighteous, godly and ungodly, that every one may receive according to his desert. For God, says the Scripture, \"will bring every work to judgment.\"<br/><i>— CONSTITUTIONS OF THE HOLY APOSTLES 5:7</i></p><p><b>Cyril of Jerusalem</b>: This body shall rise, but it will not abide in its present condition but as an eternal body. No longer will it, as now, need nourishment for life or stairs for its ascent, for it will become spiritual, a marvelous thing, beggaring description. \"Then shall the just,\" it is said, \"shine forth like the sun and the moon and like the splendor of the firmament.\" God, foreknowing human unbelief, has given to the smallest worms to emit from their bodies beams of light in the summer, that natural fluorescence might be a parable of what we expect.… He who makes the worm shine luminously will much more illumine the just person. Therefore we shall rise again, all with eternal bodies, though not all with like bodies. A just person will receive a heavenly body, to dwell worthily with the angels, whereas the sinner will receive an eternal body and so never be consumed, though it burn eternally in fire.<br/><i>— Catechetical Lecture 18:18-19</i></p><p><b>Hippolytus of Rome</b>: And so of the things which will be in this way he adds saying, \"And many of they who sleep in the dust of the earth shall arise, some to eternal life and some to reproach and eternal shame and they who understand shall shine as the splendor of the firmament and the many righteous as the stars in the age to come.\" [Daniel 12:2-3]</p><p>For also the Lord in the Gospel spoke the same, \"Then the righteous shall gleam as the sun shines in its glory.\" [Matthew 13:43]<br/><i>— Commentary on Daniel 4.55.1, 3</i></p><p><b>Irenaeus</b>: For every prophecy, before its fulfilment, is to men [full of] enigmas and ambiguities. But when the time has arrived, and the prediction has come to pass, then the prophecies have a clear and certain exposition. And for this reason, indeed, when at this present time the law is read to the Jews, it is like a fable; for they do not possess the explanation of all things pertaining to the advent of the Son of God, which took place in human nature; but when it is read by the Christians, it is a treasure, hid indeed in a field, but brought to light by the cross of Christ, and explained, both enriching the understanding of men, and showing forth the wisdom of God and declaring His dispensations with regard to man, and forming the kingdom of Christ beforehand, and preaching by anticipation the inheritance of the holy Jerusalem, and proclaiming beforehand that the man who loves God shall arrive at such excellency as even to see God, and hear His word, and from the hearing of His discourse be glorified to such an extent, that others cannot behold the glory of his countenance, as was said by Daniel: \"Those who do understand, shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, and many of the righteous as the stars for ever and ever.\"<br/><i>— Against Heresies Book IV</i></p><p><b>Pachomius the Great</b>: Quick, flee from sin, think at once of death, for it is written, \"The prudent person treats sin harshly, and the face of ascetics will shine like the sun.\"<br/><i>— INSTRUCTIONS 1:32</i></p><p><b>Theodoret of Cyrus</b>: \"And the wise will shine.…\" And the Lord says in the holy Gospels, \"Then the righteous will shine like the sun.\" \"And from their many righteous deeds, they will shine like the stars forever and ever.\" The most upright above all will be compared with the brightness of the firmament and with the light of the sun itself. Those who are less than these (that is what he means by the word \"many\") will imitate the luster of the stars, sending down this light forever. So also Paul distinguished the ranks of the godly: \"The glory of the sun is one kind, the glory of the moon another, and the glory of the stars yet another, for star differs from star in glory.\"<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON Daniel 12:3</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"624f4149567862f1fd8fcc51ce4c042cdbc0ac8b81893907b6963f17fa25d011","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":3587,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"5e3595bf64c0994e6f92f93a75e135526187ac48c69412d5b8f18b3bb506637f","translator":null,"work":null}