{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-5402","native_reference":{"book_number":550,"chapter_from":1,"chapter_to":1,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":3,"verse_to":3},"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>: He shows that the human race is sustained by the goodness of both, as much Father as Son. Nor does he indicate that the Son is less than the Father when he calls him our Lord, nor that the Father is greater when he calls him our God. He will not be a true Father unless he is also Lord, nor will the Son be a true Lord unless he is also God.<br/><i>— EPISTLE TO THE Galatians 1.3</i></p><p><b>Augustine of Hippo</b>: The grace of God, by which our sins are forgiven, is the condition of our being reconciled to him, whereas peace is that wherein we are reconciled.<br/><i>— EPISTLE TO THE Galatians 3 [1B.1.3-5]</i></p><p><b>Jerome</b>: (Verse 3) Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. Not as in the other Epistles, he puts the grace of God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, and peace, through which without merit of works, and sins were granted to us previously, and peace was granted after forgiveness: but wisely he now argues the cause against those who were prevented by the Law, and thought they could be justified by works, so that they would know that they should continue in grace, in what they had begun.<br/><i>— Commentary on Galatians</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"Grace to you and peace from God the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ.\"</p><p>This he always mentions as indispensible, and in this Epistle to the Galatians especially; for since they were in danger of falling from grace he prays that they may recover it again, and since they had come to be at war with God, he beseeches God to restore them to the same peace.</p><p>\"God the Father.\"</p><p>Here again is a plain confutation of the heretics, who say that John in the opening of his Gospel, where he says \"the Word was God,\" used the word \"Theos\" without the article, to imply an inferiority in the Son's Godhead; and that Paul, where he says that the Son was \"in the form of God,\" did not mean the Father, because the word \"Theos\" was without the article. For what can they say here, where Paul says, \"apo Theou Patros,\" and not \"apo tou Theou\"? And it is in no indulgent mood towards them that he calls God, \"Father,\" but by way of severe rebuke, and suggestion of the source whence they became sons, for the honor was vouchsafed to them not through the Law, but through the washing of regeneration. Thus everywhere, even in his exordium, he scatters traces of the goodness of God, and we may conceive him speaking thus: \"O ye who were lately slaves, enemies and aliens, what right have ye suddenly acquired to call God your Father? it was not the Law which conferred upon you this relationship; why do ye therefore desert Him who brought you so near to God, and return to your tutor?\"<br/><i>— Homily on Galatians 1</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: But the Name of the Son, as well as that of the Father, had been sufficient to declare to them these blessings. This will appear, if we consider the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ with attention; for it is said, \"thou shalt call His Name Jesus; for it is He that shall save His people from their sins;\" and the appellation of \"Christ\" calls to mind the unction of the Spirit.<br/><i>— Homily on Galatians 1</i></p><p><b>John Damascene</b>: He lays this down everywhere, and especially now he writes to the Galatians, because they were running the risk of falling away from grace, and returning to circumcision.</p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: — [CHRYSOSTOM] \"grace to you.\" For since they were in danger of falling from grace because of the circumcision, he prays this for them.</p><p>He also says, \"and peace.\" For they had been at war with God, by the observance of the ritual precepts.</p><p>\"from God the Father.\" Where do you have, he says, the right to call God Father?\" Is it not from baptism? Why then do you oppose the law?<br/><i>— Commentary on Galatians</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"47bba3b6a1b5d38370eec230bec3db4c765acc172b3a0daf445652db43294d13","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":5402,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"a419a2aaa47ffb47444eb18cf70d6468ea98f94e2bbd7d1d16b6d8009487f6c9","translator":null,"work":null}