{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-7618","native_reference":{"book_number":290,"chapter_from":51,"chapter_to":51,"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 Alexandria</b>: If we want to know the meaning of these words in the person of God and Father, then we say that he calls the Son \"his righteousness.\" For we are saved in him … through his great mercy.… He is called \"righteousness\" and \"salvation\" and rightly so. For he has removed all evil from us and, freeing us from the chains of death, has led us into eternal life.… Those who were once weak and prostrate on the ground grasp his right hand and gain the hope of an unexpected salvation. For the holy Scriptures often call the Son the right arm of the Father. For he is his power.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON Isaiah 4:5.51:5</i></p><p><b>Theodoret of Cyrus</b>: He calls his power \"arm\": that which constitutes the greatest proof of divine power is to have conquered the world by the cross, by ignominy and by death; it is to have given fishermen, publicans, shoemakers as masters to philosophers and to rhetoricians; it is to have, thanks to a dozen men, cultivated the whole world and, thanks to an equally small number of men, filled the entire earth and sea with the divine message.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON Isaiah 16:51.5</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"2f08c1362b0f97ce90f70e8bc5e78543b0e2fd0db9e4d363e912f08a014042d3","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":7618,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"617f1173e64a6848d6b78687286d80185d93833d7c3af289f442f3a61818d57e","translator":null,"work":null}