{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-6551","native_reference":{"book_number":650,"chapter_from":11,"chapter_to":11,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":30,"verse_to":30},"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>John Chrysostom</b>: \"By faith, the walls of Jericho fell down, after they had been compassed about for seven days.\" For assuredly the sound of trumpets is not able to throw down stones, though one blow for ten thousand years; but Faith can do all things.</p><p>Seest thou that in all cases it is not by natural sequence, nor yet by any law of nature that it was changed, but all is done contrary to expectation? Accordingly in this case also all is done contrary to expectation. For inasmuch as he had said again and again, that we ought to trust to the future hopes, he introduced all this argument with reason, showing that not now only, but even from the beginning all the miracles have been accomplished and achieved by means of it.<br/><i>— Homily on Hebrews 27</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: \"By faith, the walls of Jericho.\"For they believed that the future would fall, and certainly faith directed even those things that were above nature.<br/>\"By faith, Rahab the harlot.\" For when she had heard the men reporting, she believed and received them, although the others remained unbelieving.<br/><i>— The Pseudo-Oecumenian Catena on Hebrews</i></p><p><b>Shepherd of Hermas</b>: \"The place to the right is for others who have already pleased God, and have suffered for His name's sake; and you have yet much to accomplish before you can sit with them. But abide as you now do in your simplicity, and you will sit with them, and with all who do their deeds and bear what they have borne.\" \"What have they borne?\" said I. \"Listen,\" said she: \"scourges, prisons, great tribulations, crosses, wild beasts, for God's name's sake. On this account is assigned to them the division of sanctification on the right hand, and to every one who shall suffer for God's name: to the rest is assigned the division on the left. But both for those who sit on the right, and those who sit on the left, there are the same gifts and promises; only those sit on the right, and have some glory.\"<br/><i>— Shepherd of Hermas, Vision 3</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"78caab95627a6b573cbba0fcc2091189fbc9651eb33ff2e86c40f796be6c665b","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":6551,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"8bc50b24833e13e6907b10219ecd2d9670cde271f59b6cc718bfa63ca8c79323","translator":null,"work":null}