{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-129","native_reference":{"book_number":530,"chapter_from":12,"chapter_to":12,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":5,"verse_to":5},"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>Ambrose of Milan</b>: We are all the one body of Christ, whose head is God, whose members we are. Some perhaps are the eyes, like the prophets. Others are more like teeth, as the apostles who passed the food of the gospel teaching into our hearts.… Some are hands who are seen carrying out good works. Those who bestow the strength of nourishment upon the poor are his belly. Some are his feet, and would that I were worthy to be his heel! He pours water on the feet of Christ who forgives the lowly their sins, and, in setting free the common man, he bathes the feet of Christ.<br/><i>— LETTER 62</i></p><p><b>Cyril of Jerusalem</b>: The Holy Spirit adapts himself to each person. He sees the dispositions of each. He sees into our reasoning and our conscience, what we say, what we think, what we believe.<br/><i>— Catechetical Lecture 14:22</i></p><p><b>Hilary of Poitiers</b>: Just as a faculty of the human body will be idle when the causes that stir it into activity are not present, so with the soul. The eyes will not perform their functions except through the light or the brightness of day. The ears will not comprehend their task when no voice or sound is heard. The nostrils will not be aware of their office if no odor is detected. It is not that the faculty is lost because the cause is absent. Rather the employment of the faculty comes from the cause. It is the same with the soul of man. If the soul has not breathed in the gift of the Spirit through faith, even though it will continue to possess the faculty for understanding, it will not have the light of knowledge. The one gift, which is in Christ, is available to everyone in its entirety, and what is present in every place is given insofar as we desire to receive it and will remain with us insofar as we desire to become worthy of it. This gift is with us even to the consummation of the world. This is the consolation of our expectation. This, through the efficacy of the gifts, is the pledge of our future hope. This is the light of the mind, the splendor of the soul. For this reason we must pray for this Holy Spirit.<br/><i>— ON THE TRINITY 2.35</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"And there are diversities of ministrations, but the same Lord.\"</p><p>Thus, enriching the consolation, he adds mention of the Son also, and of the Father. And again, he calls these gifts by another name, designing by this also an increase of consolation. Wherefore also he thus said: \"there are diversities of ministrations, but the same Lord.\" For he that hears of \"a gift,\" and hath received a less share, perhaps might grieve; but when we speak of \"a ministration,\" the case is different. For the thing implies labor and sweat. \"Why grievest thou then,\" saith he, \"if he hath bidden another labor more, sparing thee?\"<br/><i>— Homily on 1 Corinthians 29</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"7ef402f45e09f0395841d3d3f036a9cd2d7ec8f7d2e091ef1eeb07d5e6f56bdc","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":129,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"a23ef1c73e667fb9bbe812191d768d9e0e7dbf97115a15049e830c58bc5a6572","translator":null,"work":null}