{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-4234","native_reference":{"book_number":560,"chapter_from":1,"chapter_to":1,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":19,"verse_to":19},"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>: But what is clear? that through His power we have believed that He hath raised Christ. For to persuade souls, is a thing far more miraculous than to raise a dead body. I will endeavor to make this clear. Hearken then. Christ said to the dead, \"Lazarus, come forth,\" and straightway he obeyed. Peter said, \"Tabitha, arise,\" and she did not refuse. He Himself shall speak the word at the last day, and all shall rise, and that so quickly, that \"they which are yet alive, shall in no wise precede them that are fallen asleep,\" and all shall come to pass, all run together \"in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye.\" But in the matter of believing, it is not thus, but how is it? Hearken then to Him again, how He saith, \"How often would I have gathered thy children together, and ye would not.\" You perceive that this last is the more difficult. Accordingly, it is upon this that he builds up the whole argument; because by human calculations it is far more difficult to influence the choice, than to work upon nature. And the reason is this, it is because He would thus have us become good of our own will. Thus with good reason does he say,</p><p>\"The exceeding greatness of His power to us-ward who believe.\"</p><p>Yes, when Prophets had availed nothing, nor Angels, nor Archangels, when the whole creation, both visible and invisible, had failed, (the visible lying before us, and without any power to guide us, and much also which is invisible,) then He ordered His own coming, to show us that it was a matter which required Divine power.<br/><i>— Homily on Ephesians 3</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: It was He who \"wrought in Christ His mighty power, by raising Him from the dead, and setting Him at His own right hand, and putting all things under His feet\" -even the same who said: \"Sit Thou on my right hand, until I make Thine enemies Thy footstool.<br/><i>— Against Marcion Book V</i></p><p><b>Theodoret of Cyrus</b>: Since he was speaking within the limits of human language and was unable to hymn the Lord as he wished and show the greatness of his gifts, the holy apostle brings together many things under one name, striving to reveal these as much as language permits. The name \"Father of glory\" embraces the hope of our calling and the riches of the glory of our inheritance, the exceeding greatness of his power and the good pleasure of his will, and all that goes with it. But \"the immeasurable greatness of his power\" ironically now comes to mind as he thinks of the dishonor of the cross and considers how much was achieved through it.<br/><i>— Interpretation of the Epistle to the Ephesians 1.19</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"f7c50a14a40ea48b55048a5a6621c79e90ac940784272dd64de9709a69e27917","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":4234,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"f583000d2d530e1b24b4771f9f4f66e1b12c281a99925f0964cc3810053d0d92","translator":null,"work":null}