{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-867","native_reference":{"book_number":670,"chapter_from":4,"chapter_to":4,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":16,"verse_to":16},"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>Hilary of Arles</b>: If you suffer as a Christian, you have nothing to be ashamed of. Think of James the son of Zebedee or Stephen. However awful the trials you suffer may be, learn to glory in them, not to be upset by them. Christ's glory is revealed in the church when it suffers.<br/><i>— INTRODUCTORY COMMENTARY ON 1 PETER</i></p><p><b>Polycarp of Smyrna</b>: Let us then continually persevere in our hope, and the earnest of our righteousness, which is Jesus Christ, \"who bore our sins in His own body on the tree,\" \"who did no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth,\" but endured all things for us, that we might live in Him. Let us then be imitators of His patience; and if we suffer for His name's sake, let us glorify Him. For He has set us this example in Himself, and we have believed that such is the case.<br/><i>— Epistle to the Philippians 8</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"fb72a667a7fd55ab8f4c99e2946b678a05cfdf157aef3a8a69b0f36f38929fa2","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":867,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"ad67e2861aab0adb250bd1a97c953cbdf206ccdb1373f5a9f9a719087fff8ea9","translator":null,"work":null}