{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-5809","native_reference":{"book_number":10,"chapter_from":21,"chapter_to":21,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":8,"verse_to":8},"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>Bede</b>: The boy grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day of his weaning. Isaac is nourished with milk when each chosen one, that is, the son of the promise, newly begotten in Christ, receives the first rudiments of faith, and although he cannot yet sufficiently search the most profound secrets of divinity, nevertheless, delighted by the sweetness of celestial rewards, he strives to engage in good works through which, with God's help and generosity, he may deserve to receive greater things, according to what the apostle Peter said: \"Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking, like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk so that by it you may grow up into salvation, if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.\" But Isaac, being weaned and coming to the nourishment of bread, occurs when the chosen ones, with the progress of faith, learn not only to confess Jesus Christ and him crucified but also to add that in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.<br/><i>— Commentary on Genesis (Hexaemeron)</i></p><p><b>Bede</b>: And Abraham held a great feast on the day of Isaac's weaning, because it is indeed a great solemnity for the highest teachers of the mind when they see those whom they have nurtured ascend to the summit of wisdom and virtue.<br/><i>— Commentary on Genesis (Hexaemeron)</i></p><p><b>Origen of Alexandria</b>: \"Isaac,\" says the Scripture, \"was growing\" and being strengthened — that is, Abraham's joy was growing as he looked not \"at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen.\" For Abraham did not rejoice over things present, nor over the riches of the world and the doings of this age. But do you wish to hear from what source Abraham rejoiced? Hear the Lord saying to the Jews: \"Abraham your father desired to see my day, and he saw it and was glad.\" Through this, therefore, \"Isaac was growing\" — through that vision of Abraham's by which he saw the day of Christ, and by the hope that is in him, which heaped up his joys. And would that you too might become Isaacs and be a joy to your mother the Church.<br/><i>— HOMILIES ON Genesis 10.1</i></p><p><b>Augustine of Hippo</b>: ON THE FEAST THAT ABRAHAM MADE WHEN HIS SON WAS WEANED. — The question arises why Abraham did not celebrate the day his son was born or the day he circumcised him, but the day he weaned him. And the question has no solution if it does not refer to some spiritual significance. For it is evident that only then must there be a great joy for the spiritual age when the new spiritual man is born, that is to say, not a man like the Apostle describes with these words: I have fed you with milk, and not with meat, for hitherto you were not able, but not even now you are able: for you are yet carnal. (1Cor. 3:2) [<br/><i>— QUESTIONS ON GENESIS, Q. 49 (tr. J. Litteral, draft)</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"b2d0b00fde0d00422d14bc82f161b9c1c655e2bc67a863ad745b0b9ab05217e5","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":5809,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"9a1d16e24812a1c6382b5bf7c9f811c534688b51dcf3bee977095e796a27945d","translator":null,"work":null}