{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-6475","native_reference":{"book_number":650,"chapter_from":1,"chapter_to":1,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":5,"verse_to":5},"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>: \"For to which of the Angels said He at any time, Thou art My Son, this day have I begotten Thee. And again, I will be to Him a Father, and He shall be to Me a Son\"? For these things indeed are spoken with reference also to the flesh: \"I will be to Him a Father, and He shall be to Me a Son\" - while this, \"Thou art My Son, this day have I begotten Thee,\" expresses nothing else than \"from [the time] that God is.\" For as He is said to be, from the time present (for this befits Him more than any other), so also the [word] \"To-day\" seems to me to be spoken here with reference to the flesh. For when He hath taken hold of it, thenceforth he speaks out all boldly. For indeed the flesh partakes of the high things, just as the Godhead of the lowly. For He who disdained not to become man, and did not decline the reality, how should He have declined the expressions?<br/><i>— Homily on Hebrews 2</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: We heard, and we who are men, are true sons through grace. The angels, however, did not hear this, lest their sublimity be thought to be from nature rather than from grace. Christ, however, is not from grace, but from nature.<br/>\"I have begotten You.\" The Father relates the birth of the Son according to the flesh, therefore he said: \"today\"; Thus says the holy Athanasius.<br/><i>— The Pseudo-Oecumenian Catena on Hebrews</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: \"I will be to Him a Father.\" Again, accept this as the Son's birth according to the flesh, belonging to the Father; for it is clearly said, \"I will be to Him a Father, and He shall be to Me a Son according to the flesh.\"<br/><i>— The Pseudo-Oecumenian Catena on Hebrews</i></p><p><b>Origen of Alexandria</b>: Let us see, then, what the devil speaks to the Lord from the Scriptures: \"For it is written, that he has commanded his angels concerning you, and in their hands they will lift you up, lest perhaps you dash your foot against a stone.\" See how, even in the testimonies themselves, he is shifty. For he wishes to diminish the glory of the Savior, as though he needed the help of the angels, being about to dash his foot unless he were lifted up by their hands. He takes up a testimony and interprets of Christ that which was written not of Christ, but of the saints generally. For freely and with all confidence I contradict the devil, that this cannot be understood of the person of Christ. For he does not need the help of the angels, who is greater than the angels and has obtained by inheritance a name better than they. To none of the angels did God ever say: \"You are my Son, this day have I begotten you.\" To none of them did he speak as to a son, \"he who makes his angels spirits, and his ministers a burning fire,\" but to his own proper Son, of whom he speaks innumerable things in the prophets. He does not need, I say, the help of the angels, the Son of God. Nay rather, learn, O devil, that, unless Jesus should help the angels, they dash their own foot. And if any of the angels has seemed to dash his foot—of whom it was read a little while ago: \"that we shall judge angels\"—he dashes it for this reason, that he did not stretch out his hand to Jesus, so that, being grasped by him, he might not dash it. For when anyone, trusting in his own strength, does not call upon the protection of Jesus, he dashes his foot and falls.<br/><i>— HOMILIES ON THE GOSPEL OF Luke 31</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: \" This voice the Father was going Himself to recommend. For, says he, He establishes the words of His Son, when He says, \"This is my beloved Son, hear ye Him.<br/><i>— Against Marcion Book IV</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"9de04643b04e2bcf0ad3d257a4c573eba1ddaac52b16989a4bd3b7adf9517e0c","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":6475,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"44f998d01a10cd9717020ffaa2c15078ea48f88f4192486dd9d045e808d30664","translator":null,"work":null}