{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-1945","native_reference":{"book_number":540,"chapter_from":6,"chapter_to":6,"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>Ambrosiaster</b>: It is obvious that the things Paul lists are opposites and that we are to flee from the ones and cling to the others. No one can serve two masters. Christ has proclaimed that we should go away from the devil, who wants to represent himself falsely as God. He has promised us eternal life, so we should be strangers to the treachery and wrong-headedness of unbelievers. He has forbidden the worship of idols because they are incompatible with the temple of God. We are temples of the living God. There is nothing more damaging to us than idols, because they tempt us to depart from our faith in the one true God.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES</i></p><p><b>Apostolic Constitutions</b>: Let us all pray unto God for the catechumens, that He that is good, He that is the lover of mankind, will mercifully hear their prayers and their supplications, and so accept their petitions as to assist them and give them those desires of their hearts which are for their advantage, and reveal to them the Gospel of His Christ; give them illumination and understanding, instruct them in the knowledge of God, teach them His commands and His ordinances, implant in them His pure and saving fear, open the ears of their hearts, that they may exercise themselves in His law day and night; strengthen them in piety, unite them to and number them with His holy flock; vouchsafe them the layer of regeneration, and the garment of incorruption, which is the true life; and deliver them from all ungodliness, and give no place to the adversary against them; \"and cleanse them from all filthiness of flesh and spirit, and dwell in them, and walk in them, by His Christ; bless their goings out and their comings in, and order their affairs for their good.\"<br/><i>— Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book 8</i></p><p><b>Clement of Alexandria</b>: \"We are God's temples; as the prophet said, I will dwell among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people,\" if our behaviour conforms to the commandments both as individuals and also as a society, as the Church. \"Wherefore come out from among them and be separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing, and I will receive you and be to you a Father, and you shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.\" He prophetically commands us to be separate not from those who are married, as they assert, but from the heathen who are still living in immorality, and also from the heretics we have mentioned, as unclean and godless persons.<br/><i>— The Stromata Book 3</i></p><p><b>Gregory of Nyssa</b>: The Dignity For Which We Are Made</p><p>\"Know to what extent the Creator has honoured you [the human being] above all the rest of creation. The sky is not an image of God, nor is the moon, nor the sun, nor the beauty of the stars, nor anything of what can be seen in creation. You alone have been made the image of the Reality that transcends all understanding, the likeness of imperishable beauty, the imprint of true Divinity, the recipient of beatitude, the seal of the true light. When you turn to Him you become that which He is Himself… There is nothing so great among beings that it can be compared with your greatness. God is able to measure the whole Heaven with His span. The earth and sea are enclosed in the hollow of His hand. And although He is so great and holds all creation in the palm of His hand, you are able to hold Him, He dwells in you and moves within you without constraint, for He has said, 'I will live and move among them' (2 Corinthians 6:16).\" - \"Second Homily on the Song of Songs (PG 44,765)\"</p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"What agreement hath a temple of God with idols? For ye are a temple of the living God.\"</p><p>Now what he says is this. Neither hath your King aught in common with him, \"for what concord hath Christ with Beliar?\" nor have the things [aught in common'], \"for what communion hath light with darkness?\" Therefore neither should ye. And first he mentions their king and then themselves; by this separating them most effectually. Then having said, \"a temple of God with idols,\" and having declared, \"For ye are a temple of the living God,\" he is necessitated to subjoin also the testimony of this to show that the thing is no flattery. For he that praises except he also exhibit proof, even appears to flatter. What then is his testimony? For,</p><p>\"I will dwell in them, saith he, \"and walk in them. I will dwell in,\" as in temples, \"and walk in them,\" signifying the more abundant attachment to them.</p><p>\"And they shall be my people and I will be their God.\" 'What?' saith he, 'Dost thou bear God within thee, and runnest unto them? God That hath nothing in common with them? And in what can this deserve forgiveness? Bear in mind Who walketh, Who dwelleth in thee.'<br/><i>— Homily 13 on 2 Corinthians</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: In Platonic phrase, indeed, the body is a prison, but in the apostle's it is \"the temple of God,\" because it is in Christ.<br/><i>— A Treatise on the Soul</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: For He saith, That I will dwell in you, and will walk in (you), and will be their God, and they shall be to Me a people. Wherefore depart from the midst of them, be separate, and touch not the unclean.' This (thread of discourse) also you spin out, O apostle, when at the very moment you yourself are offering your hand to so huge a whirlpool of impurities; nay, you superadd yet further, 'Having therefore this promise, beloved, cleanse we ourselves out from every defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting chastity in God's fear.<br/><i>— On Modesty</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"4022ed0ce0a5b1d802412bb34b802d483a377c5e40a5a95602d6add38b344aab","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":1945,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"70b9e3fab8742df229372f32e86f1d13e0bdf3027a0fe928670c12508d83c579","translator":null,"work":null}