{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-2353","native_reference":{"book_number":620,"chapter_from":1,"chapter_to":1,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":13,"verse_to":13},"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>: Not by letters alone did Paul instruct his disciple in his duty, but before by words also which he shows, both in many other passages, as where he says, \"whether by word or our Epistle\" (2 Thess. ii. 15.), and especially here. Let us not therefore suppose that anything relating to doctrine was spoken imperfectly. For many things he delivered to him without writing. Of these therefore he reminds him, when he says, \"Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me.\" After the manner of artists, I have impressed on thee the image of virtue, fixing in thy soul a sort of rule, and model, and outline of all things pleasing to God. These things then hold fast, and whether thou art meditating any matter of faith or love, or of a sound mind, form from hence your ideas of them. It will not be necessary to have recourse to others for examples, when all has been deposited within thyself.<br/><i>— Homily on 2 Timothy 3</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: Hold to the pattern of sound teaching that you have heard from me, in faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. Guard the good deposit through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.</p><p>Hold to the pattern of sound teaching. Like an image, likeness, imitation. \"of sound teaching,\" those concerning faith and life. As I suppose concerning others, they are not sound.</p><p>that you have heard from me. He did not assign to the disciple only epistles to be made, but also gave instructions orally in his presence. For thus he acted in all things as well. Therefore, let no one think that anything is lacking in the epistles, because they do not discuss everything.</p><p>in faith and love. For the words and teachings came into being in faith and love given to him through Christ.</p><p>Guard the good deposit. Paul calls the faith and the care of the Church entrusted to him a deposit. Then he shows that human strength is not enough to guard so much. For there are many obstacles. Therefore, he indicates the way of guarding. \"Guard,\" he says, \"through the Holy Spirit.\" As if he said: Strive to have the Spirit abiding in you, and do not cast it away through bad conduct, and you will guard the deposit. \"For unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain; unless the Lord watches over the city, the guards stand watch in vain.\" (Psalms 127:1)</p><p>Disadvantages of the transmission of divine dogmas.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON 2 TIMOTHY</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"45e22c5d3f55bc325779ae881ae613b67924279c8e3379056e15cb8d3e80c791","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":2353,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"1040dff81563362bb07613a65e21ce42f7980c79853a1181a717c163e4d0aa40","translator":null,"work":null}