{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-207","native_reference":{"book_number":530,"chapter_from":14,"chapter_to":14,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":40,"verse_to":40},"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>: Something is done decently when it is done peacefully and with discipline.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES</i></p><p><b>Augustine of Hippo</b>: The positions laid down by him were, that prophesying was to be preferred to speaking with tongues; that these gifts should not be exercised in a disorderly manner, as if the spirit of prophecy compelled them to speak even against their will; that women should keep silence in the Church; and that all things should be done decently and in order. While treating of these things he says: \"If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him know the things which I write to you, for they are the commands of the Lord. If any man be ignorant, he shall be ignored;\" intending by these words to restrain and call to order persons who were specially ready to cause disorder in the Church, because they imagined themselves to excel in spiritual gifts, although they were disturbing everything by their presumptuous conduct. \"If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him know,\" he says, \"the things which I write to you, for they are the commands of the Lord.\" If any man thinks himself to be, and in reality is not, a prophet, for he who is a prophet undoubtedly knows and does not need admonition and exhortation, because \"he judgeth all things, and is himself judged of no man.\" Those persons, therefore, caused confusion and trouble in the Church who thought themselves to be in the Church what they were not. He teaches these to know the commandments of the Lord, for he is not a \"God of confusion, but of peace.\"<br/><i>— Letter 169, To Evodius</i></p><p><b>Basil of Caesarea</b>: Paul is referring to the decent and well-ordered way of life in the society of the faithful, where the relationship which obtains among the members of the body is maintained.<br/><i>— THE LONG RULES 24</i></p><p><b>Fulgentius of Ruspe</b>: If we take a closer look at the origin of sin, I think that it is nothing else than the inordinate love by a rational creature of the things set in order by God.<br/><i>— TO MONIMUS 1.20.2</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: Then, as in brief summary, setting all things right, he adds the words,</p><p>\"Let all things be done decently and in order.\"</p><p>Again giving a blow to them who chose to behave themselves unseemly without cause, and to incur the imputation of madness; and who keep not their proper rank. For nothing doth so build up as good order, as peace, as love; even as their contraries tend to pull down. And not only in things spiritual, but also in all others one may observe this. Thus whether it be in a dance, or a ship, or in a chariot, or a camp, if thou shouldest confound the order, and casting the greater out of their proper place, shouldest bring in the lesser into their rank, thou destroyest all, and thus things are turned upside down. Neither let us then destroy our order, nor place the head below and the feet above: now this is done when we cast down right reason, and set our lusts, passions, and pleasure, over the rational part: whence violent are the billows, and great the confusion, and intolerable the tempest, all things being wrapt in darkness.<br/><i>— Homily on 1 Corinthians 37</i></p><p><b>Origen of Alexandria</b>: Therefore he wants all these to be set in order by you, nothing disordered, nothing restless, nothing indecent.… Therefore, now our true high priest, Christ, also wants his hands to be filled \"with finely composed incense.\".<br/><i>— HOMILIES ON Leviticus 9.4-5</i></p><p><b>Pseudo-Clement</b>: For it is required of the man of God, that in all his words and works he be perfect, and that in his life he be adorned with all exemplary and well-ordered behaviour, and do all his deeds in righteousness, as a man of God.<br/><i>— Two Epistles on Virginity</i></p><p><b>Theodoret of Cyrus</b>: Law and order come first. Let us also dedicate ourselves to this principle as members of the fellowship of the great Lawgiver.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON THE FIRST EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 264</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"33caeb8d082584bdc2e9f5bd1ca3172c1cc1ec8bc4199ca71d41b64ad4c8e83e","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":207,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"1399302b95235a43aed447ca81b247a681fe629146a43069f0582899e47098e9","translator":null,"work":null}