{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-4265","native_reference":{"book_number":560,"chapter_from":3,"chapter_to":3,"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>Clement of Alexandria</b>: Men must then be saved by learning the truth through Christ, even if they attain philosophy. For now that is clearly shown \"which was not made known to other ages, which is now revealed to the sons of men.\" For there was always a natural manifestation of the one Almighty God, among all right-thinking men; and the most, who had not quite divested themselves of shame with respect to the truth, apprehended the eternal beneficence in divine providence.<br/><i>— The Stromata Book 5</i></p><p><b>Gaius Marius Victorinus</b>: He teaches that there is a perfect harmony—a complete unity and identity—between the revelations given to him and those given to the apostles. His purpose is to avoid discord and any appearance of having received by revelation something that was not given to the apostles by the living Christ.<br/><i>— EPISTLE TO THE Ephesians 1.3.5</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: What then, tell me, did not the Prophets know it? How then doth Christ say, that Moses and the Prophets wrote \"these things concerning Me?\" And again, \"If ye believed Moses, ye would believe Me.\" And again, \"Ye search the Scriptures, because ye think that in them ye have eternal life, and these are they which bear witness of me.\" His meaning is this, either that it was not revealed unto all men, for he adds, \"which in other generations was not made known unto the sons of men, as it hath now been revealed;\" or else, that it was not thus made known by the very facts and realities themselves, \"as it hath now been revealed unto His holy Apostles and Prophets in the Spirit.\" For reflect. Peter, had he not been instructed by the Spirit, never would have gone to the Gentiles. For hear what he says, \"Then hath God given unto them the Holy Ghost, as well as unto us.\" That it was by the Spirit that God chose that they should receive the grace. The Prophets then spoke, yet they knew it not thus perfectly; so far from it, that not even did the Apostles, after they had heard it. So far did it surpass all human calculation, and the common expectation.<br/><i>— Homily on Ephesians 6</i></p><p><b>Theodoret of Cyrus</b>: It was made known incrementally to the prophets of old, but not fully then as it is now. For they did not see the whole picture but wrote down words about aspects of it. … Remember that in the apostles' day there were many who had the gift of prophecy. It is in this order that he mentions that the revelation was known to the apostles and then to the prophets.<br/><i>— Interpretation of the Epistle to the Ephesians 3.5</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"6bd51c2d858a042753bc29e807b77f9fdbe61a12e1c635a271cdae8548b3b99b","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":4265,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"40558ceaaa9b9fbe0d2e03bc559199a82d39ba04e1e07c7c68e67b55b28bd047","translator":null,"work":null}