{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-6521","native_reference":{"book_number":650,"chapter_from":10,"chapter_to":10,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":39,"verse_to":39},"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>Clement of Alexandria</b>: And also when discussing with others in order to put them to shame, he does not shrink from saying, \"But call to mind the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions; partly, whilst ye were made a gazing-stock, both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used. For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took with joy the spoiling of your goods, knowing that you have a better and enduring substance. Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward. For ye have need of patience, that, after doing the will of God, ye may obtain the promise. For yet a little while, and He that cometh will come, and will not tarry. Now the just shall live by faith: and if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of them that draw back unto perdition, but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.\"<br/><i>— The Stromata Book 4</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"Now the just\" (he says) \"shall live by faith, but if any man draw back, My soul shall have no pleasure in him.\" This is a great encouragement when one shows that they have succeeded in the whole matter and are losing it through a little indolence. \"But we are not of them that draw back unto perdition, but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.\"<br/><i>— Homily on Hebrews 21</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: \"But we are not of those who withdraw to destruction.\" Since he astonished them by saying, \"and if he becomes sluggish,\" he says, \"my soul shall have no pleasure in him.\" He corrects it and says: We are not those who withdraw ourselves or are sluggish, which leads to destruction: but we pertain to faith, to possess and save our souls.<br/><i>— The Pseudo-Oecumenian Catena on Hebrews</i></p><p><b>Shepherd of Hermas</b>: And you see that not a single one of them repented, although they heard the words which I spake to them, which I enjoined upon you. From such life departed.<br/><i>— Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 8</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"16f2a61326cd2ed970e4879c85f9abf3d80d33e58b72d3e2b9c632bc0162ea27","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":6521,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"decc6877b3ef6b8eb016d7b8108af22b14344ae5ec3296a24a782ef0add977a9","translator":null,"work":null}