{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-485","native_reference":{"book_number":690,"chapter_from":2,"chapter_to":2,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":14,"verse_to":14},"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>Augustine of Hippo</b>: \"I write unto you, children.\" Whence children? \"Because ye have known the Father. I write unto you fathers:\" he enforceth this, and repeateth, \"Because ye have known Him that is from the beginning.\" Remember that ye are fathers: if ye forget \"Him that is from the beginning,\" ye have lost your fatherhood. \"I write unto you, young men.\" Again and again consider that ye are young men: fight, that ye may overcome: overcome, that ye may be crowned: be lowly, that ye fall not in the fight. \"I write unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.\"<br/><i>— Ten Homilies on 1 John 2</i></p><p><b>Augustine of Hippo</b>: All these things, my brethren,-\"because we have known That which is from the beginning, because we are strong, because we have known the Father,\"-do all these, while they in a manner commend knowledge, not commend charity? If we have known, let us love: for knowledge without charity saveth not. \"Knowledge puffeth up, charity edifieth.\" If ye have a mind to confess and not love, ye begin to be like the demons. The demons confessed the Son of God, and said, \"What have we to do with Thee?\" and were repulsed. Confess and embrace, For those feared for their iniquities; love ye Him that forgiveth your iniquities.<br/><i>— Ten Homilies on 1 John 2</i></p><p><b>Bede</b>: I write to you, young men, because you are strong, etc. Consider again and again that you are young men, fight so that you may conquer, conquer so that you may be crowned. Be humble, lest you fall in battle.<br/><i>— Commentary on the Catholic Epistles</i></p><p><b>Clement of Alexandria</b>: By strong \"young men\" John means those who have overcome their lusts.<br/><i>— From the Latin Translation of Cassiodorus</i></p><p><b>Cyril of Alexandria</b>: The young men are a model of courage, the elders are a model of understanding, and the sons and daughters are a model of what it means to be children in Christ.<br/><i>— CATENA</i></p><p><b>Origen of Alexandria</b>: In my opinion, if someone is a child inside, then he will appear to be a child on the outside as well, however old he is. The same is true of someone who is an overgrown teenager. But it also follows from this that anyone can be an adult and parent on the inside, whatever age they may be.<br/><i>— CATENA</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"014cc5c3ee5cee1c53ff7e07dd926bfd2b6b6567ea64713a67de5dcf392edd05","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":485,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"626686ad00537eef56c317801357e0f67a29abd91a00837850d58d2b4d0f392e","translator":null,"work":null}