{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-4608","native_reference":{"book_number":20,"chapter_from":3,"chapter_to":3,"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>Ambrose of Milan</b>: Why should we despair that God should speak in men, who spoke in the thorn bush? God did not despise the bush. Would that he might also give light to my thorns. Perhaps some may wonder that there is some light even in our thorns. Some of our thorns will not burn. There will be some whose shoes shall be put off their feet at the sound of my voice, that the steps of the mind may be freed from bodily hindrances.<br/><i>— Concerning Virginity 1.1.2</i></p><p><b>Augustine of Hippo</b>: Was the Lord speaking through an angel? Or was the Lord that angel who has been called the \"angel of great counsel\" and is understood to be Christ? For Scripture said above, \"the angel of the Lord appeared to him.\"<br/><i>— QUESTIONS ON Exodus 3</i></p><p><b>Peter Chrysologus</b>: This is why he summons Moses by his fatherly voice, addresses him with paternal love and invites him to be the liberator of his people. Why should I say more? He makes him a god; he sets him up as a god before Pharaoh. He makes him a god, fortifies him with signs, arms him with virtues, wins wars through mere commands, grants to him as a soldier victory gained by a mere word. By his orders he concedes him a triumph and leads him through all the crowns of virtues to his own friendship, gives him an opportunity to share in his heavenly kingdom and allows him to be a legislator. However, Moses received all this that he might love—that at length he might be so inflamed with the love of God that he would burn with it himself and encourage others to have it too.<br/><i>— SERMON 147</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"490ad8bc28b5fe79e0317e7b709daf86b55cee30ce6ba3baf1cbe3cc7a485ba2","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":4608,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"ee87bf3957d36de2d1dfdae5ba71a9e5152ea2f04521dc503924e7565b20c46f","translator":null,"work":null}