{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-6387","native_reference":{"book_number":10,"chapter_from":9,"chapter_to":9,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":9,"verse_to":9},"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>: God's purpose, therefore, was to eliminate all apprehension from Noah's thinking and for him to be quite assured that this would not happen again. He said, remember, \"Just as I brought on the deluge out of love, so as to put a stop to their wickedness and prevent their going to further extremes, so in this case too it is out of my love that I promise never to do it again, so that you may live free of all dread and in this way see your present life to its close.\" Hence he said, \"Behold, I make my covenant,\" that is, I form an agreement. Just as in human affairs when someone makes a promise he forms an agreement and gives a firm guarantee, so too the good Lord said, \"Behold, I make my covenant.\" God did not say that this massive disaster might come again to those who sin. Rather he said, \"Behold, I make my covenant with you and your offspring after you.\" See the Lord's loving kindness: not only with your generation, he says, do I form my agreement, but also in regard to all those coming after you I give this firm guarantee.<br/><i>— HOMILIES ON Genesis 28.4</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"4ede13e11e21f36116969221981ac0fa63030b20c9620e55e2091ea1688debc3","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":6387,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"35725430f383e5b49535b4d7c5d68f00e6a3122fb24aca334892e5d05f0c1a54","translator":null,"work":null}