{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-6559","native_reference":{"book_number":650,"chapter_from":11,"chapter_to":11,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":38,"verse_to":38},"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>Basil of Caesarea</b>: Here is the narrow and close way that leads to life. Here are the teachers and prophets, \"wandering in deserts, mountains, caves and holes in the earth.\" Here are the apostles and evangelists … living as citizens of the desert.<br/><i>— LETTER 42</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: And thou canst not say (he says) that these were sinners and worthless. For even if you put the whole world against them, I find that they weigh down the beam and are of greater value. What then were they to receive in this life? Here he raises up their thoughts, teaching them not to be riveted to things present, but to mind things greater than all that are in this present life, since the \"world is not worthy\" of them. What then dost thou wish to receive here? For it were an insult to thee, shouldst thou receive thy reward here.</p><p>Let us not then mind worldly things, nor seek our recompense here, nor be so beggarly. For if \"the\" whole \"world is not worthy of\" them, why dost thou seek after a part of it? And with good reason; for they are friends of God.</p><p>Now by \"the world\" does he mean here the people, or the creation itself? Both: for the Scripture is wont to use the word of both. If the whole creation, he would say, with the human beings that belong to it, were put in the balance, they yet would not be of equal value with these; and with reason. For as ten thousand measures of chaff and hay would not be of equal value to ten pearls, so neither they; for \"better is one that doeth the will of the Lord, than ten thousand transgressors\"; meaning by \"ten thousand\" not merely many, but an infinite multitude.<br/><i>— Homily on Hebrews 27</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: \"of whom the world was not worthy.\" This also encourages them. For if this world was not worthy of those who suffer badly for the sake of God, that is, all people and this creation itself, why do you, he says, wish to receive the rewards here for the sufferings endured for Christ? For being better than the world, do not seek anything in this world.<br/>\"wandering about in deserts.\" But Elijah, and the prophets whom Obadiah fed. (1 Kings 23:19) Note, however, that it does not say, \"They found rest in the occupied desert,\" but rather that they also wandered there in fear of their persecutors.<br/><i>— The Pseudo-Oecumenian Catena on Hebrews</i></p><p><b>Severian of Gabala</b>: \"Of whom the world was not worthy.\" … He does not say this about everyone but about the latter ones whom he sees as martyrs, witnesses of faith. He reminds us that these put foreign armies to flight and through their service to their people received grace.<br/><i>— FRAGMENTS ON THE EPISTLE TO THE Hebrews 11.38</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"b2fd769919488f17601d03edd14ae822a3aa6292d17efc2c7401abe87f037df0","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":6559,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"5309210aad9909680688a6e2d09547f0059ecd31ff69e27eeb27fce244074a47","translator":null,"work":null}