{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-845","native_reference":{"book_number":670,"chapter_from":3,"chapter_to":3,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":16,"verse_to":16},"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>Bede</b>: With gentleness and respect, maintaining a good conscience. In the very knowledge of doctrine, he advises observing the quality of teaching, so that humility, which is the teacher and mother of all virtues, may be spoken and shown through seeing.<br/><i>— Commentary on the Catholic Epistles</i></p><p><b>Bede</b>: So that when they malign you as evildoers, etc. So that those who jeer at your faith and hope in heavenly things they cannot see, may see your good works, and by these be put to shame because they cannot deny they are openly good. Or certainly it should be understood this way: Ensure, by doing good, that those who disparage your good conduct, at the coming time of future retribution, may be put to shame, seeing you crowned with Christ, while they are damned with the devil.<br/><i>— Commentary on the Catholic Epistles</i></p><p><b>Hilary of Arles</b>: Do not get angry or threaten anyone. Your conscience is the part of you which embraces what is good and which rejects evil. It is like the doorkeeper of a house which is open to friends and closed to enemies.<br/><i>— INTRODUCTORY COMMENTARY ON 1 PETER</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: \"Having a good conscience.\" That is, while you are well aware of yourselves and not evil, as those who slander you are.<br/>\"that when they defame you.\" That is, those who create trouble with words, harshly investigating.<br/><i>— Commentary on 1 Peter</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"491b0ebfb2ccf9f92bf797d89182161e00429e3412fe4dce9362f8ee1500e0ab","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":845,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"f3be0260376446b71d77a604e5564311b154c59f14d79aeb51bad90670698533","translator":null,"work":null}