{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-3104","native_reference":{"book_number":510,"chapter_from":3,"chapter_to":3,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":22,"verse_to":22},"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>Bede</b>: Moses indeed said: Because the Lord your God has raised up for you a prophet from among your brethren, like me, you shall listen to him according to all that he will speak to you, etc. The beginning of this passage in Greek has more: Moses indeed said to your fathers: Because the Lord your God has raised up for you a prophet. The meaning of the sentence is clear, because our Lord took on the truth of flesh from the people of Israel, appearing in the likeness of Moses, so that just as he [Moses] introduced carnal Israel, instructed and purified by ceremonies and sacred rites, into the promised land, so also the Lord, through the grace of the Gospel, gathering spiritual Israel from the whole world, would lead them to the heavenly kingdoms. And just as those who disdained the law of Moses were expelled from the promised land by enemy nations, so also those who have scorned the teaching of evangelical grace will be cast out from the assembly of the saints by avenging spirits. For this is what follows:<br/><i>— Retractions on Acts</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: Christ sent the Jews back to Moses so that, through Moses, he might draw them to himself. In the same way, Moses hands over his disciples to his teacher and commands them to believe him in all things.<br/><i>— AGAINST THE ANOMOEANS 12.5</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A Prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you.\" Before, he had spoken of David, here he speaks of Moses. \"Of all things,\" he says, \"which He hath spoken.\" But he does not say, \"which Christ,\" but, \"which God hath spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began.\" Then he betakes him to the ground of credibility, saying, \"A Prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; Him shall ye hear in all things.\"<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 9</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"A prophet shall the Lord God raise up for you from among your brethren, like unto me.\" This would most conciliate them. Do you observe the sprinkling of low matters and high, side by side,-that He Who was to go up into the heavens should be like unto Moses? And yet it was a great thing too. For in fact He was not simply like unto Moses, if so be that \"every soul which will not hear shall be destroyed.\" And one might mention numberless other things which show that He was not like unto Moses; so that it is a mighty text that he has handled. \"God shall raise Him up unto you,\" says Moses, \"from among your brethren,\" etc.: consequently Moses himself threatens those that should not hear.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 9</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: Having said, \"All things which God hath spoken by the mouth of all His holy Prophets,\" now indeed he brings in Christ Himself. For, if He predicted many things and it is necessary to hear Him, one would not be wrong in saying that the Prophets have spoken these things. But, besides, he wishes to show that the Prophets did predict the same things. And, if any one will look closely into the matter, he will find these things spoken in the Old Testament, obscurely indeed, but nevertheless spoken.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 9</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: What is this, \"like me\"? Christ is born in Bethlehem, and Moses in Egypt. That Moses is an Israelite, as is this Jesus according to the flesh. That Moses is of a priestly lineage, as is this Jesus of David because of the Virgin. Pharaoh opposed that Moses, Herod opposed this Jesus. That Pharaoh killed infants, and this Herod slayed infants; that Moses and this Jesus are male. That Moses was saved through a mother, and this Jesus was saved through a Mother and also with His Mother. That Moses was in a coffin and beside a river; this Jesus was also in Lycon and by the same river in the Egyptian city. That Moses was raised by a foreigner, the daughter of Pharaoh; this Jesus was raised in a city and in a foreign city which had been subjected to Pharaoh. I do not say these things comparing the Master to the servant, but comparing time and manner, and outlining the truth in a shadow.<br/><i>— Commentary on Acts</i></p><p><b>Pseudo-Clement</b>: When meantime Moses, that faithful and wise steward, perceived that the vice of sacrificing to idols had been deeply ingrained into the people from their association with the Egyptians, and that the root of this evil could not be extracted from them, he allowed them indeed to sacrifice, but permitted it to be done only to God, that by any means he might cut off one half of the deeply ingrained evil, leaving the other half to be corrected by another, and at a future time; by Him, namely, concerning whom he said himself, 'A prophet shall the Lord your God raise unto you, whom you shall hear even as myself, according to all things which He shall say to you. Whosoever shall not hear that prophet, his soul shall be cut off from his people.<br/><i>— Recognitions (Book I)</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"bad608835c76a72dda28d30443e4793a69a1ce9084a65f5562e359760a85a1a6","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":3104,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"8c1fe2f491d8c33e984e460a7d1f987189f800baadc1027ecde9f495b2449fcc","translator":null,"work":null}