{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-785","native_reference":{"book_number":670,"chapter_from":1,"chapter_to":1,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":6,"verse_to":6},"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>Andreas of Caesarea</b>: Right now we have to suffer for the sake of the preaching, but relief for those who toil is near.<br/><i>— CATENA</i></p><p><b>Bede</b>: In which you will rejoice, etc. What he says \"In which,\" signifies that at the last time, salvation prepared will be revealed and given to the worthy. Of which the Lord also said: Again I will see you, and your heart shall rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you (John XVI).<br/><i>— Commentary on the Catholic Epistles</i></p><p><b>Bede</b>: Now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved. He says, it is necessary to be grieved, because it is only through the sorrow of a fleeting world and afflictions that one can come to eternal joys. He says \"for a little while,\" because when the eternal reward will be given, all that seemed severe and bitter in worldly tribulations will appear brief and light.<br/><i>— Commentary on the Catholic Epistles</i></p><p><b>Clement of Alexandria</b>: And one aim and one end, as far as regards perfection, being demonstrated to belong to the man and the woman, Peter in his Epistle says, \"Though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations; that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than that of gold which perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise, and honour, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ; whom, having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see Him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable, and full of glory, receiving the end of your faith, the salvation of your souls.\" Wherefore also Paul rejoices for Christ's sake that he was \"in labours, more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths oft.\"<br/><i>— The Stromata Book 4</i></p><p><b>Desert Fathers</b>: Syncletica said, 'All must endure great travail and conflict when they are first converted to the Lord but later they have unspeakable joy. They are like people trying to light a fire, the smoke gets in their eyes, their eyes begin to water, but they succeed in what they want. It is written, \"Our God is a consuming fire\" (Heb. 12:29), and so we must kindle divine fire with tears and trouble.'<br/><i>— The Desert Fathers, Sayings of the Early Christian Monks</i></p><p><b>Didymus the Blind</b>: Those who are afflicted in various ways because of Christ and who persevere to the end have their faith tested and proved. They ought therefore to rejoice, even if some of their labor appears to be involuntary. Peter calls this kind of labor grief, a word which he uses in one of the two meanings described by the apostle Paul, who said that there is one grief which leads to death and another which leads to repentance. Obviously it is the second of these which is meant here.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON 1 PETER</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: In which you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials,<br/>\"In which you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary.\" This is the order: affected by sorrow now, if necessary, that is, if this also should be (for not all saints are afflicted) at the end of time you will rejoice, for the present is accepted for the future. Or even through the present, as is declared in the following.<br/><i>— Commentary on 1 Peter</i></p><p><b>Origen of Alexandria</b>: Read \"grieve\" in this verse in the sense of \"suffer,\" as in \"in grief you shall bring forth children.\" For a woman experiences grief not in bearing children but rather in suffering before birth.<br/><i>— EXHORTATION TO MARTYRDOM 39</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"cd5c23c3e1d1189d83aa31551c9424f4ad7021441068144b99a251e263367853","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":785,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"39200280371c0a965149dbb2223490a6bb16eff4e820478c526a8ec97706f108","translator":null,"work":null}