{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-4845","native_reference":{"book_number":330,"chapter_from":16,"chapter_to":16,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":49,"verse_to":49},"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>Isaac of Nineveh</b>: The soul … that devotes herself to the recollection of profitable things finds rest in her freedom; her cares are small, and she repents of nothing. She takes forethought for virtue, she bridles the passions, she keeps guard upon excellence, and thus she enjoys growth [that is unhindered], joy free of solicitude, a good life and a perilless haven.<br/><i>— ASCETICAL HOMILIES 40</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: But for all this, some are of so senseless a disposition, as even after these words to say, \"Nay, far be it from me to weep at any time, but may God grant me to laugh and to play all my days.\" And what can be more childish than this mind? For it is not God that grants to play, but the devil. At least hear, what was the portion of them that played. \"The people,\" it is said, \"sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.\" Such were they at Sodom, such were they at the time of the deluge. For touching them of Sodom likewise it is said, that \"in pride, and in plenty, and in fullness of bread, they waxed wanton.\" And they who were in Noah's time, seeing the ark a preparing for so many years, lived on in senseless mirth, foreseeing nought of what was coming. For this cause also the flood came and swept them all away, and wrought in that instant the common shipwreck of the world. Ask not then of God these things, which thou receivest of the devil. For it is God's part to give a contrite and humbled heart, sober, self-possessed, and awestruck, full of repentance and compunction. These are His gifts, forasmuch as it is also of these things that we are most in need.<br/><i>— HOMILIES ON THE GOSPEL OF Matthew 6:9</i></p><p><b>Origen of Alexandria</b>: To know that sins are unequal you only have to look at the teaching of the Scriptures, which will leave you in no doubt.<br/><i>— HOMILIES ON Ezekiel 9:2</i></p><p><b>Origen of Alexandria</b>: What then is the sin most great of all sins? It is the one for which the devil fell.… Pride is greater than all sins, and the principal sin of the devil.… Often the reason for pride is for him who disregards having an ecclesiastical dignity.<br/><i>— HOMILIES ON Ezekiel 9:2</i></p><p><b>Origen of Alexandria</b>: Often having a fullness and an abundance of bread is the cause of arrogance. But often the sin of pride also arises over spiritual gifts, and discernment is needed to distinguish the one from the other.<br/><i>— HOMILIES ON Ezekiel 9:5</i></p><p><b>Philoxenus of Mabbug</b>: And again, through meat and luxuries the Sodomites also were polluted with an unclean matter, and pleasures and the love of the belly brought them unto that limitless wickedness, even as the prophet of God maketh known concerning them, \"This was the iniquity of thy luxurious sister Sodom, who was satisfied with bread, and dwelt at ease;\" for by reason of being filled with bread, and delicacies they polluted themselves with unnatural lust. Let these things and others which are like unto them be in thy remembrance, O thou that wishest to travel in the path of heaven, and cut off and cast away from thee the fettering weight of the belly, which sinketh the soul into the depths of wickedness like a millstone in the sea.<br/><i>— 13 Ascetic Discourses, Discourse 10 -- On Gluttony</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"3403aaa08404e0ae26b355543ba74d5476d4cd888c25683393c4e6ac6100ffe5","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":4845,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"3dae015dcfbe79f58d9f9a2c875dc66de9d1437aa1bc5a2235fc0c84b93d2172","translator":null,"work":null}