{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-2520","native_reference":{"book_number":510,"chapter_from":11,"chapter_to":11,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":16,"verse_to":16},"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>: Saying to them, \"Who have received the Holy Ghost even as we.\" And not content with this, he reminds them also of the words of the Lord: \"Then remembered I the word of the Lord, how that he said, John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost.\" He means, that no new thing has happened, but just what the Lord foretold.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 24</i></p><p><b>Origen of Alexandria</b>: The people received John, who was lesser than Christ, supposing and pondering \"whether perhaps he himself were the Christ\"; but him who came as \"greater\" than John they did not receive. Do you wish to know the reason? Learn it: John's baptism was visible, Christ's baptism was invisible. \"For I\", he says, \"baptize you with water; but he who comes after me is greater than I, and he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire\". When does Jesus baptize \"with the Holy Spirit\", and again, when does he baptize \"with fire\"? Does he baptize both \"with the Spirit and with fire\" at one and the same time, or at a distinct and different time? \"But you\", he says, \"shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days hence\". The apostles were baptized \"with the Holy Spirit\" after his ascension into the heavens; but that they were baptized \"with fire\", Scripture does not record. But just as John, beside the river Jordan, awaited those coming to the baptism, and drove others away, saying: \"brood of vipers\" and the rest, while those who confessed their vices and sins he received, so the Lord Jesus Christ will stand in the river of fire beside the \"flaming sword\", so that whoever, after the departure from this life, desires to pass over to paradise and has need of cleansing, he may baptize with that stream and send across to the things longed for; but him who does not have the sign of the earlier baptisms he will not baptize with the fiery washing. For it is fitting that one first be baptized \"with water and the Spirit\", so that, when he comes to the fiery river, he may show that he has kept both the washings of water and of the Spirit, and then may deserve to receive also the baptism of fire in Christ Jesus: to whom is glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.<br/><i>— HOMILIES ON THE GOSPEL OF Luke 24</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"0edd4da075e111237837a774c44d234e0298546f01432b00146510929bae098c","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":2520,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"6ef5b7f8bc161433f8603369390a85f1c50128fd0f809a48bb989408351f3932","translator":null,"work":null}