{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-379","native_reference":{"book_number":530,"chapter_from":6,"chapter_to":6,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":17,"verse_to":17},"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>: The Spirit of God is shared between God and human beings when we are united to the Lord.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.\"</p><p>For the conjunction suffers the two no longer to be two, but makes them both one.</p><p>Now mark again, how he proceeds by means of the bare terms, conducting his accusation in the names of the harlot and of Christ.</p><p>Wherefore he saith, \"He that is joined to a harlot is one body; but he that is joined to the Lord is one Spirit.\" For such an one becomes thenceforth Spirit, although a body envelope him. For when nothing corporeal nor gross nor earthly is around him, the body doth but merely envelope him; since the whole government of him is in the soul and the Spirit. In this way God is glorified. Wherefore both in the Prayer we are commanded to say, \"Hallowed be Thy Name:\" and Christ saith also, \"Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.\"</p><p>So do the heavens also glorify Him, uttering no voice, but by the view of them attracting wonder and referring the glory unto the Great Artificer. So let us glorify Him also, or rather more than they. For we can if we will. For not so much do the heaven nor day nor night glorify God, as a holy soul. For as one that gazeth upon the beauty of the heaven, saith, \"Glory be to Thee, O God! How fair a work hast thou formed!\" so too when beholding virtue in any man: nay, and much more so in the latter instance. For from these works of creation all do not glorify God; but many even assert that the things which exist are self-moving: and others impute to demons the workmanship of the world and providence; and these indeed greatly and unpardonably err: but in regard to the virtue of man, no one shall have power to hold these shameless opinions, but shall assuredly glorify God when he seeth him that serveth Him living in goodness. For who shall help being astonished when one being a man, and partaking of our common nature, and living among other men, like adamant yields not at all to the swarm of passions? when he is injured, and blesses; when he is evil reported of, and praises; when he is despitefully used, and prays for those who injure him; when he is plotted against, and does good to those that fight with him and lay snares for him? For these things, and such as these, will glorify God far more than the heaven. For the Greeks when they behold the heavens feel no awe; but when they see a holy man exhibiting a severe course of life with all strictness, they shrink away and condemn themselves. Since when he that partakes of the same nature as themselves is so much above them, a great deal more so than the heaven is above the earth, even against their inclination they think that it is a Divine power which works these things. Wherefore He saith, \"And glorify your Father which is in heaven.\"<br/><i>— Homily on 1 Corinthians 18</i></p><p><b>Macarius of Egypt</b>: We Are Not Irremediably In Error</p><p>\"It is not true, as some maintain who are led astray by error, that the human being is irremediably dead and can no longer do anything good. A small child is incapable of anything; it cannot run to its mother on its own legs; it tumbles on the ground, cries out, sobs, calls out to her. And she is gentle with it, she is touched to see her baby seeking her so impatiently with so many sobs. It cannot reach her but cries out to her tirelessly, and she goes to it overcome with love, she kisses it, presses it to her heart and feeds it, with unspeakable tenderness. God loves us and he behaves like her towards the soul that seeks him and cries out to him. In the eagerness of that infinite love that is his… He takes hold of our spirit, unites Himself to it, and we become 'one spirit with Him', as the apostle says (I Corinthians 6.17). The soul is linked with the Lord, and the Lord, full of compassion and love, unites Himself to it and it dwells in his grace. Then the soul and the Lord are one spiritually, they form one life, one heart.\" - \"Homily 46\"</p><p><b>Origen of Alexandria</b>: The soul of Jesus clung to God from the beginning of the creation in a union inseparable and indissoluble, as the soul of the wisdom and word of God, and of the truth and the true light. Receiving him wholly and itself entering into his light and splendor, it was made one spirit with him in a preeminent degree. This is what the apostle promises to those who imitate Jesus.<br/><i>— ON FIRST PRINCIPLES 2.9.3</i></p><p><b>Origen of Alexandria</b>: The Apostle says that the righteous man is one with Christ, but he is distinct from Christ: \"And he who cleaves to the Lord is one spirit with Him.\" Is it not true that one of them has a lower nature, transient and fleeting, while the nature of Christ is more divine and glorious and blessed? And notwithstanding this, are they no longer two? Yes, for man and woman are no longer two, but one flesh, and the righteous man and Christ are one spirit. … When the righteous man cleaves to Christ, the fitting word is spirit. But when Christ is one with the Father, the fitting word is neither flesh nor spirit, but the more worthy one — God.<br/><i>— DIALOGUE WITH HERACLIDES</i></p><p><b>Origen of Alexandria</b>: \"He who cleaves to the Lord becomes one spirit\" with him. If, then, \"he who is joined to the Lord\", though he was natural, is by that very thing turned into a spiritual man and \"is one spirit\", let us too lose our soul, so that, cleaving to the Lord, we may be transformed into one spirit.<br/><i>— HOMILIES ON THE GOSPEL OF Luke 36</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"036bea45385c1c59656960eec987f5d9ba96b6e68a4aabe2691f97ddd1b83485","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":379,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"dac9cbf7cb95df01bb59a5966b25db4e8bbfa3959c3dd0fac2991f7d44a228c3","translator":null,"work":null}