{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-5171","native_reference":{"book_number":330,"chapter_from":44,"chapter_to":44,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":3,"verse_to":3},"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>Jerome</b>: Such is the greatness of his goodness and the prince of his mercy, that even though he alone sits at the closed door and eats bread before the Lord, he desires to have more companions at his table and feast, and says: 'Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone opens to me, I will enter in and dine with him, and he with me' (Rev. 3:20). But he alone eats bread in the presence of the Lord, because his substance and divine nature are separate from all the substances of creatures. He himself enters and exits through the same gate of the vestibule: for he is both inside and outside, that is, infused and encompassing all; entering through the gate in order to bring with him those who cannot enter without his teaching and help; and exiting in order to bring in others again.<br/><i>— Commentary on Ezekiel</i></p><p><b>Jerome</b>: Christ himself is a virgin, and his mother is also a virgin; though she is his mother, she is a virgin still. For Jesus has entered in through the closed doors, and in his tomb—a new one hewn out of the hardest rock—no one is laid either before him or after him.… Mary is the east gate, spoken of by the prophet Ezekiel, always shut and always shining and either concealing or revealing the Holy of Holies.<br/><i>— LETTER 48.21</i></p><p><b>John Damascene</b>: Without seed the Son of God was conceived of the Holy Spirit, and in the Virgin's womb he formed for himself a fleshly body, animate with a reasonable and intelligent soul. From it [he came] forth in one substance but in two natures, perfect God and perfect man. It preserved undefiled, even after birth, the virginity of her that bore him. Being made of like passions with ourselves in all things, yet without sin, he took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses. For, since by sin death entered into the world, he who was to redeem the world had to be without sin, and not by sin subject to death.<br/><i>— BARLAAM AND JOSEPH 7</i></p><p><b>Origen of Alexandria</b>: As the priest does not eat his food in the house or in any other place, except in the Holy of Holies, so does my Savior eat the bread, and no one can eat with him.<br/><i>— HOMILIES ON Ezekiel 14:3</i></p><p><b>Origen of Alexandria</b>: Each one of us asks for \"daily bread\" and when asking for \"daily bread\" does not receive either the same bread or the same measure. So without ceasing, thanks to pure prayers and a clean conscience, in the works of justice, we eat daily bread. And if anyone is less pure, he eats the daily bread in another way.<br/><i>— HOMILIES ON Ezekiel 14:3</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"252d7e3b8920bb82bc5f140246aee2d2a9add6a91516fddfab4549de74c2cfa0","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":5171,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"e9fd593b0bcb6b123db181aa7ce3198a988e425dd257b0e6dfe075adb0f2732d","translator":null,"work":null}