{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-3618","native_reference":{"book_number":340,"chapter_from":13,"chapter_to":13,"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>Didymus the Blind</b>: The devil does not fill someone or dwell in him by participation in his nature or being, as some think, but is thought to dwell in someone whom he has filled with confusion, deception and wickedness. With this same deception he entered the old men, who became cruel toward Susanna, and filled their souls with the passion of lust and the belated will of old age. In fact, it is written, \"The two old men arrived, full of evil intentions.\" He also filled the entire Jewish people with these deceptions. As the prophet says, \"Woe to you, sinful nation, a people full of sins, evil seed, corrupt children.\" \"Evil seed\" is the devil, and his children are called \"sinners\" because of their surpassing wickedness. If, therefore, those who are called \"his children\" in the Scriptures do not possess the devil according to a participation in being—because this has been shown, more than once, to be impossible in creatures—then neither can anyone else receive him by participation in his being but only by taking on an extremely treacherous will.<br/><i>— ON THE HOLY SPIRIT, APPENDIX.61</i></p><p><b>Hippolytus of Rome</b>: \"And it happened on the next day, as the people came together at the house of her husband Jehoiakim, the two elders came, who were full of designs of lawlessness against Susannah in order to kill her, and they said before the people, 'Send for Susannah, daughter of Hilkiah, who is the wife of Jehoiakim.' And they sent for her and she and her parents and her children and all of her relatives entered.\" [Susannah 28-30]</p><p>This is seen even now. For when one of the saints is seized, he is brought to the court, there all people run together to see what will happen to him.<br/><i>— Commentary on Daniel 1.26.1-2</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"1fc77e7f4a7c45a30402803c55ff7f650c8b43bfeec89244de883f436817a107","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":3618,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"c9e85b85c9192704e3b8d6764b64e3aece324e2448e111a329f9ac91ad0596c1","translator":null,"work":null}