{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-6822","native_reference":{"book_number":350,"chapter_from":14,"chapter_to":14,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":9,"verse_to":9},"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>Cyril of Alexandria</b>: It is only by deeply considering the matters in the divinely inspired Scriptures that we shall find the hidden truth. It would be fitting for us when looking into the dark shadows of the law to say what one of the holy prophets rightly said, \"Whoever will be wise will understand these things; and whoever will be prudent will know them.\" \"For the law is but a shadow of the good things to come, and not the exact image of the objects,\" as it is written. Yet the shadows bring forth the truth, even if they do not contain the whole truth in themselves. Because of this, the divinely inspired Moses placed a veil upon his face and spoke thus to the children of Israel, all but shouting by this act that a person might behold the beauty of the utterances made through him, not in outwardly appearing figures but in meditations hidden within us.<br/><i>— LETTER 41:7</i></p><p><b>Origen of Alexandria</b>: If any reader is \"a spiritual man who judges all things and he is judged by no one,\" not only will he allegorize the major regions as Judea and Egypt and Babylon but also areas of the earth. And just as in Judea is Jerusalem and Bethlehem and other cities, so in Egypt when he reads, \"Diospolis, Bubastis, Taphnis, Memphis, Syene,\" he will understand the meaning of things figuratively. \"Who is wise and understands these things? Or who is understanding and will know them?\"<br/><i>— HOMILIES ON Jeremiah 28:5</i></p><p><b>Origen of Alexandria</b>: And to such a degree does the gospel desire that there should be wise people among believers, that for the sake of exercising the understanding of its hearers, it has spoken certain truths in enigmas, others in what are called \"dark\" sayings, others in parables, and others in problems. And one of the prophets—Hosea—says at the end of his prophecy, \"Who is wise, and he will understand these things? Or prudent, and he shall know them?\"<br/><i>— AGAINST CELSUS 3:45</i></p><p><b>Theodore of Mopsuestia</b>: You could really demonstrate that a wise and understanding person is the one with knowledge of what has been said and with zeal for the things by which it is possible for people who avoid evil and zealously practice good to be established in freedom from lower things and in enjoyment of higher things. This is because everything done by God is marked by great correctness, with which he also applies punishment to the fallen and knows how to achieve their salvation when they repent. You could also demonstrate that the righteous are those of their number who also know how to profit from each category and who develop greater self-control from the punishments, on the one hand, while taking the enjoyment of the good things stemming from repentance as a stimulus to virtue, on the other. You could also demonstrate that the impious are those who deserve troubles in every way and of every kind, gaining nothing from them, stuck fast in a downward direction, and as a result not able to understand anything of their duty.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON Hosea 14:10</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"f50b001b20b2536e3b156b36c31a01da76a7f2159c4a1023978b94323cf8263c","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":6822,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"184b7f42accad5e88173c8d0c658f067742e8c0ffba2e96a14dbc19ec2f075a7","translator":null,"work":null}