{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-4257","native_reference":{"book_number":560,"chapter_from":2,"chapter_to":2,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":19,"verse_to":19},"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>: Believers become \"fellow citizens\" in a way analogous to all those who desired the peace of Rome. They brought gifts and were accepted as Roman citizens, as were the people of Cilician Tarsus. Paul was a Roman citizen of that city. So too anyone who has joined himself to the Christian faith becomes a fellow citizen of the saints and a member of God's household.<br/><i>— EPISTLE TO THE Ephesians 2.19</i></p><p><b>Gaius Marius Victorinus</b>: What are we to understand by \"fellow citizens with the saints?\" It implies a distinction between citizens and saints. But if this is so, who are the saints and who are the citizens? Saints refers to the apostles, prophets and all who formerly experienced God or spoke divinely through the Spirit dwelling within them. They in some way beheld God's presence, as did Abraham, either through the flesh, through the Spirit or through both flesh and Spirit, as with all the apostles. Those who have later believed in Christ without any such special means are \"fellow citizens with the saints and members of God's household.\"<br/><i>— EPISTLE TO THE Ephesians 1.2.19</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: Perceive ye that it is not with the Jews simply, no, but with those saintly and great men, such as Abraham, and Moses, and Elias? It is for the self-same city with these we are enrolled, for that we declare ourselves. \"For they that say such things,\" saith he, \"make it manifest that they are seeking after a country of their own.\" No longer are we strangers from the saints, nor foreigners. For they who shall not attain to heavenly blessings, are foreigners. \"For the Son,\" saith Christ, \"abideth for ever.\"</p><p>\"And of the household,\" he continues, \"of God.\"</p><p>The very thing which they at the first had, by means of so many toils and troubles, hath been for you accomplished by the grace of God. Behold the hope of your calling.<br/><i>— Homily on Ephesians 6</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"94d928d13e3af5dcf5d869a97830adba79fb6078f6091e2c93d218c270e8dbf3","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":4257,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"95f2715a536f2af89440772b311ac79a55933aff3636b47de45fbf65ba4bbfe4","translator":null,"work":null}