{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-6541","native_reference":{"book_number":650,"chapter_from":11,"chapter_to":11,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":20,"verse_to":20},"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>John Chrysostom</b>: \"By Faith, Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come\" (and yet Esau was the elder; but he puts Jacob first for his excellence). Seest thou how great was his Faith? Whence did he promise to his sons so great blessings? Entirely from his having faith in God.<br/><i>— Homily on Hebrews 26</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: \"By faith, Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.\" From where were such good things promised to his sons, if he did not believe that God would give the promises? And what is it, concerning things to come? Or concerning what is to happen to them, or concerning what is to be given to their offspring. For neither did they themselves enjoy the promise. Jacob, however, is first named because of his virtue.<br/><i>— The Pseudo-Oecumenian Catena on Hebrews</i></p><p><b>Severian of Gabala</b>: \"By faith Isaac invoked future blessings on Jacob and Esau.\" First he gave it to Jacob, then to Esau, not according to the sequence of their birth but according to the order of spiritual blessing.<br/><i>— FRAGMENTS ON THE EPISTLE TO THE Hebrews 11.2</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"045a03dd3b149598adf1e1bc896e3a3978896a9f46ada405cd950ebb6ee48cf1","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":6541,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"ac7bd77480fdffd443942ddc9892489bcfd26390bb04893f382a38ece108e94d","translator":null,"work":null}