{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-5528","native_reference":{"book_number":550,"chapter_from":5,"chapter_to":5,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":25,"verse_to":25},"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>Jerome</b>: (Verse 25.) If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit. Let us use this testimony against those who do not want to understand the Scriptures spiritually. But who is the one who lives by the Spirit, if not our hidden self, who sometimes tends to live according to the flesh? But when he lives by the Spirit, he walks by the Spirit. When he desires to walk in the flesh, he is alive but dead. The perfect man in Christ always lives in the Spirit: he obeys the Spirit, he never lives in the flesh. And on the contrary: He who gives himself entirely to the flesh and devotes himself to passions never lives in the spirit. Among these there are those whom we cannot call spiritual or carnal; but those who fluctuate between virtues and vices, sometimes being drawn back to better things and being spiritual, sometimes being tripped up by the slippery slope of the flesh and being carnal.<br/><i>— Commentary on Galatians</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: Since then such is the power of the Spirit, let us live therein and be content therewith... being governed by His laws. For this is the force of the words \"let us walk,\" that is, let us be content with the power of the Spirit, and seek no help from the Law. ...<br/><i>— Homily on Galatians 5</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: \"let us also walk by the Spirit.\" Therefore we too ought to live according to the will of the Spirit. Since we are going to crucify the flesh of ours once for all, \"let us also walk by the Spirit,\" he says, that is, let us be satisfied with the grace given by the Holy Spirit, and not seek to be saved by the law.<br/><i>— Commentary on Galatians</i></p><p><b>Philoxenus of Mabbug</b>: \"We live by the Spirit, and by the Spirit let us come to an end. Let us not be vainglorious, provoking one another, and envying one another.\" And that a man should live by the Spirit and come to an end by the Spirit cometh to a man by simplicity and innocency of mind.<br/><i>— 13 Ascetic Discourses, Discourse 4 -- On Faith: First Discourse on Simplicity</i></p><p><b>Philoxenus of Mabbug</b>: Now besides this there accompanieth the soul the grace of the spirit which giveth it help and power, if it be that it fulfilleth its good desire, for as when a strong man taketh hold of the hand of a child he carrieth off his weakness by the association of his own strength, even so also doth the Holy Spirit take hold of the thoughts of the soul, which is suspended like the hand of the child, that it may be exalted unto spiritual things, and that by its union with the Spirit it may acquire lightness beyond its nature. Whosoever delivereth his soul to the spirit to be nursed thereby, the whole action of his life becometh superior to harm, and for this reason Paul teacheth us to live in the spirit, and to perfect the spirit; for whosoever liveth in the spirit and perfecteth it, his whole life becometh spiritual, and he is led by the motions of the spirit, and his thoughts and deeds take place according to the will of the spirit. It is not because we lack a helper that we are overcome by lust, but because we do not seek help from the Helper, for as lust itself when it wisheth to overcome us invoketh other things to its aid, and then fighteth and conquereth us, even so must we also, if we determine to fight and to overcome it, invoke the aid of Divine power, and the support of the grace which is in us, and we shall easily overcome the lust which fighteth against us. For so long as our soul is purified from the thoughts of lust it standeth in the might of its nature, and so long as it is exalted to stand in the power of its nature, it is worthy to receive Divine power to be its support, and when it hath such company as this, it cannot be easily overcome by the lusts which fight with it.<br/><i>— 13 Ascetic Discourses, Discourse 12 -- First Discourse on Fornication</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"827645ebfc670ec4c427534e82bceb4b916dfdc29b94ac73214787454f441dca","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":5528,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"55e6cee45169a09b6930bc12fbdc8b729f443f41fa44c406ee71353338371e5e","translator":null,"work":null}