{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-3351","native_reference":{"book_number":370,"chapter_from":3,"chapter_to":3,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":2,"verse_to":2},"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>: But as he says: My eye will not spare you, and I will not have pity, like a most merciful physician who wants to cut away putrid flesh and burn festering wounds with a cauterizing iron, he does not spare in order to spare; he does not have pity in order to have more pity; so that nothing putrid and corrupting remains in the body to infect the living flesh nearby. The Lord strikes those whom he loves, and he chastises every son whom he receives. Of this understanding, it is said: I will strike and I will heal. For every medicine has bitterness in the beginning, but afterwards the fruits of pain are revealed, and health is shown. This is what God speaks through Amos: 'Because I have known you from all the tribes of the earth, therefore I will avenge upon all your sins.' For the Lord knows those who belong to Him.<br/><i>— Commentary on Ezekiel</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: For this very cause God accuses the Israelites more vehemently, and shows that they were worthy of greater chastisement, because they sinned after so many honors had come to them from Him, saying in one place: \"But you only have I known of all the families of the earth, therefore will I punish you for your iniquities,\" and again, \"and I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites;\" and before the times of the prophets, wishing to show that sins receive sorer punishment by far when they occur in the case of the Priest than in the case of the laity, He enjoins as great a sacrifice to be offered for the Priest as for the whole people, and this amounts to a proof on his part, that the wounds of the Priesthood need more assistance—that is, as great as those of all the people together, and they would not have needed a greater, except they were worse; and they are not worse in their nature, but are aggravated through the dignity of the Priest, who dares to commit them.<br/><i>— Treatise on the Priesthood, Book 6</i></p><p><b>Origen of Alexandria</b>: And each of us thinks, since he has not been an idolater, since he has not been immoral—would that we were pure in such areas—that after he has been set free from this life, he will be saved. We do not see that \"all of us must appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive either good or evil according to what he has done in the body.\" We do not hear what has been said: \"You especially have I known out of all the tribes on the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all\"—not just some and not others—\"of your iniquities.\"<br/><i>— HOMILIES ON Jeremiah 20:3</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"bfb59ad6421c33a2e81a8d7c6918ddce9f679b8c47bd7ed226ff46ea7a19c5be","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":3351,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"d6279c505ed1199c4862366f1fbcd3504aa3934ee4b7f10028e216ca11996877","translator":null,"work":null}