{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-5511","native_reference":{"book_number":550,"chapter_from":5,"chapter_to":5,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":8,"verse_to":8},"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>Ambrosiaster</b>: The truth is that the Jews imposed the yoke of the law on them by a human decision, not by the judgment of God, who was calling them to grace through his apostle.<br/><i>— EPISTLE TO THE Galatians 5.8</i></p><p><b>Jerome</b>: (Verse 8) Your persuasion is not from the one who called you. In the Latin manuscripts, I found it written as follows: Your persuasion is from God, who called you. Indeed, I think that 'from the one' was originally written and gradually, due to similarity, 'from God' became more frequent, because it is 'from the one.' But even so, the meaning cannot stand, as he had just accused them of not obeying the truth, showing that it is within their power to obey or not to obey, now on the contrary he asserts that their persuasion and obedience come not so much from those who are called, as from the one who calls. Therefore it is better and truer to read as follows: Your persuasion is not from the one who called you. For one thing is the work of God, another is the work of men. The work of God is to call; the work of men is either to believe or not to believe. And wherever the free will of man is affirmed from the Scriptures, there is quoted the passage: If you will and hear me (Exod. XIX, 5). And again: And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you? (Deut. X, 12), which is especially confirmed from this place. But those who think themselves simpler and believe that they should defer to God, so that even our belief is in His power, have removed a part of the prayer and have rendered a sense contrary to the Apostle. So, whether for good or for ill, neither God nor the devil is the cause, because our belief is not from Him who called us, but from us, who either consent or do not consent to the calling. Otherwise: This belief which you now follow is not from God who called you in the beginning, but from those who have troubled you afterwards.<br/><i>— Commentary on Galatians</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: He who called you, called you not to such fluctuations, he did not lay down a Law, that you should judaize. Then, that no one might object, \"Why do you thus magnify and aggravate the matter by your words; one commandment only of the Law have we kept, and yet you make this great outcry?\" hear how he terrifies them, not by things present but future.<br/><i>— Homily on Galatians 5</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: \"This persuasion,\" that is, being persuaded to be circumcised by those who tell you.</p><p>\"This does not come from Christ, who calls you to His faith.\" So he said. You are not called by Christ for that reason, so as to be persuaded by those who give such counsel. For calling belongs to God alone, but the being persuaded belongs to those who hear.<br/><i>— Commentary on Galatians</i></p><p><b>Theodoret of Cyrus</b>: It is for God to call and hearers to obey.<br/><i>— EPISTLE TO THE Galatians 5.8</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"1c8e13230cc286547b89db233f87c30eaebf74256286c535005c4107a8cb7cc3","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":5511,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"189923ec18c0f2615bba98f33e271bd3e7c306b80aee181769be74e2ca63519f","translator":null,"work":null}