{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-6511","native_reference":{"book_number":650,"chapter_from":10,"chapter_to":10,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":28,"verse_to":28},"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>Ephrem the Syrian</b>: And who have \"outraged the Spirit of grace,\" which is in us? These are the people who consider the gospel to be equal to the law of Moses.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: Next he adds also the reason of the threat, that it is on good grounds, that it is just; for this contributes to confidence, when we show that it is just.</p><p>For, he says, \"He that hath despised Moses' law dies without mercy, under two or three witnesses.\" \"Without mercy,\" he says; so that there is no pardon, no pity there although the law is of Moses; for he ordained the most of it.</p><p>What is \"under two or three\"? If two or three bore witness, he means, they immediately suffered punishment.<br/><i>— Homily on Hebrews 20</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: \"Anyone who has rejected Moses' law.\" A comparison is made from the lesser. For he wishes to show the destruction by fire justly inflicted against the adversaries. However, he speaks of the law to Moses (Lev. 4:26), because he commanded many things that are contained in the law.<br/>\"on the testimony of two or three witnesses.\"If two or three had testified, there was no longer a place for mercy or pardon, but he would die. Therefore, if someone who has transgressed the law of man, that is, of Moses, dies without pardon after a strong testimony, he says, what should happen to those who have trampled the law of Christ?<br/><i>— The Pseudo-Oecumenian Catena on Hebrews</i></p><p><b>Origen of Alexandria</b>: According to the law, \"the adulterer and the adulteress were put to death.\" They could not say, \"We seek repentance and we pray for mercy.\" There was no place for tears, and no opportunity was granted for any correction, but in every way it was necessary for those who had contravened the law to be punished. This was observed in certain individual offenses for which the death penalty was ascribed. But among Christians, if adultery has been committed, the precept is not that \"the adulterer and adulteress\" be punished by the destruction of the body. No power was given to episcopal authority to sentence an adulterer to immediate death, as had happened earlier according to the levitical law who gave this power to elders. What does this mean? That while the law of Moses takes adultery seriously enough to punish it unmercifully, the gospel of Christ through gentleness frees the adulterer to go from bad to worse? It is not so. For this reason, we brought forth the word of Paul, saying above, \"How much worse punishment will be deserved by one who has spurned the Son of God,\" etc. Hear, therefore, how neither was the law cruel then, nor does the gospel now appear dissolute because of the abundance of mercy, but in both instances the benevolence of God is held in a different dispensation.<br/><i>— HOMILIES ON Leviticus 11.2</i></p><p><b>Theodoret of Cyrus</b>: Once more, note, he brings out the difference under the guise of exhortation, namely, the Son in one case and the slave in the other, those sacrifices of brute beasts in one case and in the other this rational and all-holy sacrifice. To the law he set in opposition not a law but the \"blood\" and the \"Spirit.\" Through them salvation comes to us.<br/><i>— INTERPRETATION OF Hebrews 10</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"10d7a2be4ec1caefce9a22f4175fd2bec2fc78a7609f7b47bc96c2244bb5bf22","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":6511,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"03218af6907be46d0da79f8f27e48814b28751fe1b7ae28746fb191f42f9f2ad","translator":null,"work":null}