{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-851","native_reference":{"book_number":670,"chapter_from":3,"chapter_to":3,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":22,"verse_to":22},"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>Andreas of Caesarea</b>: Look how clearly the dispensation of grace is set out for us. Peter recalls Christ's death and resurrection and then goes on to mention his ascension as well, and the fact that he sits at the right hand of the Father, lest you imagine that when he suffered he lost something of his glory.<br/><i>— CATENA</i></p><p><b>Bede</b>: Having gone up to heaven, etc. There is no doubt that all angels and all powers and authorities of the heavenly homeland have always been subject to the Son of God, whom they praise, tremble before, and adore as one God with the Father and the Holy Spirit without beginning. But blessed Peter necessarily considered it appropriate to note that the assumed humanity is so gloriously exalted by the resurrection that it is preferred by an incomparable summit to the dignity of all angelic power. According to which the Psalmist also said about Him to the Father: You have made Him a little lower than the angels (Psalms 8); immediately adding: You have crowned Him with glory and honor, and have set Him over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under His feet (Ibid.).<br/><i>— Commentary on the Catholic Epistles</i></p><p><b>Clement of Alexandria ((as quoted by Cassiodorus))</b>: \"Angels being subjected to Him,\" which are the first order; and \"principalities\" being subject, who are of the second order; and \"powers\" being also subject, which are said to belong to the third order.<br/><i>— From the Latin Translation of Cassiodorus</i></p><p><b>Didymus the Blind</b>: Just as all rational creatures are made by the Son of God, who is the Word, or Reason, so too is their salvation brought about by him. For those who possess holiness not by nature but by grace, because they are creatures, must be cleansed by him in order to obtain goodness.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON 1 PETER</i></p><p><b>Leo the Great</b>: While the strength of the angelic legions that waited on Christ was held in check, he drank the cup of sorrow and death, thereby transforming the entire affliction into triumph. Deceptions were overcome, and the powers of evil were suppressed.<br/><i>— SERMONS 69.4</i></p><p><b>Polycarp of Smyrna</b>: \"Wherefore, girding up your loins,\" \"serve the Lord in fear\" and truth, as those who have forsaken the vain, empty talk and error of the multitude, and \"believed in Him who raised up our Lord Jesus Christ from the dead, and gave Him glory,\" and a throne at His right hand. To Him all things in heaven and on earth are subject. Him every spirit serves. He comes as the Judge of the living and the dead. His blood will God require of those who do not believe in Him. But He who raised Him up from the dead will raise up us also, if we do His will, and walk in His commandments, and love what He loved, keeping ourselves from all unrighteousness, covetousness, love of money, evil speaking, false witness; \"not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing,\" or blow for blow, or cursing for cursing, but being mindful of what the Lord said in His teaching: \"Judge not, that ye be not judged; forgive, and it shall be forgiven unto you; be merciful, that ye may obtain mercy; with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again;\" and once more, \"Blessed are the poor, and those that are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of God.\"<br/><i>— Epistle to the Philippians 2</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"b76e5a27b06e915feaff5f2111d702a81170d7bf790cf9d9b15ca0ef37a7e463","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":851,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"4bd5f7b091a4653611266202f029f5cd9699196c486329905de6756270a39b7a","translator":null,"work":null}