{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-1933","native_reference":{"book_number":540,"chapter_from":6,"chapter_to":6,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":4,"verse_to":4},"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>: Servants of God teach without flattery, so that they might please him whose servants they are, unlike the false apostles, who sought only to please their hearers.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES</i></p><p><b>Gregory of Nyssa</b>: This is the grace of the Holy Spirit, possessing the entire soul and filling the dwelling place with gladness and power, making sweet for the soul the sufferings of the Lord, and taking away the perception of the present pain because of the hope of the things to come.<br/><i>— ON THE CHRISTIAN MODE OF LIFE</i></p><p><b>Gregory of Nyssa</b>: For this is the grace of the Holy Spirit, possessing the entire soul and filling the dwelling place with gladness and power, making sweet for the soul the sufferings of the Lord and taking away the perception of the present pain because of the hope of the things to come. So, govern yourselves thus as you are about to ascend to the highest power and glory through your co-operation with the Spirit; endure every suffering and trial with joy with a view toward appearing to be worthy of the dwelling of the Spirit within you and worthy of the inheritance of Christ. Never be puffed up or enfeebled by indifference to the point of falling yourselves or being the cause of another's sin.<br/><i>— ON THE CHRISTIAN MODE OF LIFE</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"But in every thing commending ourselves as ministers of God.\" This is far greater. For it is not the same thing to be free from accusation; and to exhibit such a character as in everything to appear \"ministers of God.\" For neither is it the same thing to be quit of accusation, and to be covered with praises. And he said not appearing, but \"commending,\" that is 'proving.' Then he mentions also whence they became such. Whence then was it? \"In much patience\" he says, laying the foundation of those good things. Wherefore he said not barely \"patience,\" but \"much,\" and he shows also how great it was. For to bear some one or two things is no great matter. But he addeth even snowstorms of trials in the words, \"In afflictions, in necessities.\" This is a heightening of affliction, when the evils are unavoidable, and there lies upon one as it were a necessity hardly extricable of misfortune. \"In distresses.\" Either he means those of hunger and of other necessaries, or else simply those of their trials.<br/><i>— Homily 12 on 2 Corinthians</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"4f6cb1dd0738385fe7537bf878a5c4e388f9a23910367ea7fc988a7000630b4f","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":1933,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"1c9055174dc8a64c43815b42812cd48a05be51333dc9ab5297e8f9c6cba5d460","translator":null,"work":null}