{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-2421","native_reference":{"book_number":620,"chapter_from":4,"chapter_to":4,"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>John Chrysostom</b>: \"The Lord Jesus Christ be with thy spirit.\" There can be no better prayer than this. Grieve not for my departure. The Lord will be with thee. And he says, not \"with thee,\" but \"with thy spirit.\" Thus there is a twofold assistance, the grace of the Spirit, and God helping it. And otherwise God will not be with us, if we have not spiritual grace. For if we be deserted by grace, how shall He be with us? \"Grace be with us. Amen.\" Thus he prays for himself too, that they may always be well-pleasing to Him, that they may have grace together with the spiritual gift, for where this is, nothing will be grievous. For as he who beholds the king, and is in favor with him, is sensible of no uneasiness; so though our friends forsake us, though we be overtaken by calamity, we shall feel no distress, if that grace be with us and fortify us.<br/><i>— Homily on 2 Timothy 10</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: The Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Grace be with us all. Amen.</p><p>The Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. The help is twofold, that of Christ and that of the Holy Spirit, as if Paul were saying, With the coming of the Holy Spirit which you now have. Let also the Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Since this is with you, you will not suffer at my departure. Or that it is not possible to enjoy the presence of Christ without being endowed with spiritual grace, so as to be, in relation to this interpretation, with your spirit, that is, with spiritual grace.</p><p>Grace be with us. And Paul prays for himself, either so that he may always be grateful, or so that he may always have a spiritual gift.</p><p>Finished, with divine help, of the later Epistle to Timothy.</p><p>It was written from the city of Rome, when Paul was brought before Nero Caesar the Roman for the second time.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON 2 TIMOTHY</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"bd28e3e0e1488b8caf02248fedeb7254bfc6c7e59935668c3bc83e51a4ba2d26","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":2421,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"64257a3a3cad94905b68bcdfe179c83ea521238144d08d03703f8fdafa1e51d8","translator":null,"work":null}