{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-1600","native_reference":{"book_number":590,"chapter_from":5,"chapter_to":5,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":26,"verse_to":26},"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>: \"Salute all the brethren with a holy kiss.\"</p><p>Oh! what fervor! Oh! what mad passion is here! Because being absent he could not greet them with the kiss, he greets them through others, as when we say, Kiss him for me. So also do ye yourselves retain the fire of love. For it does not admit of distances, but even through long intervening ways it extends itself, and is everywhere present.<br/><i>— Homily on 1 Thessalonians 11</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: But when is peace more to be concluded with brethren than when, at the time of some religious observance, our prayer ascends with more acceptability; that they may themselves participate in our observance, and thereby be mollified for transacting with their brother touching. their own peace? What prayer is complete if divorced from the \"holy kiss? \" Whom does peace impede when rendering service to his Lord? What kind of sacrifice is that from which men depart without peace? Whatever our prayer be, it will not be better than the observance of the precept by which we are bidden to conceal our fasts; for now, by abstinence from the kiss, we are known to be fasting.<br/><i>— On Prayer</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"7b3a902d561ca89a56e190bdebe94511c6dfa8e8ec0c0f00f64438218456c67f","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":1600,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"c0283fdf2596b8c2aa64c5c697bddc646064e4de2bd552ba85d764faa747ecc8","translator":null,"work":null}