{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-510","native_reference":{"book_number":690,"chapter_from":3,"chapter_to":3,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":10,"verse_to":10},"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>Andreas of Caesarea</b>: Love is the mark of sinlessness, and hate is the mark of sin. Since the person who walks in righteousness is born of God, it follows that someone who is so born will love the brothers, whereas someone who does not have this new birth will not do so. Rather he who hates his brother is not of God.<br/><i>— CATENA</i></p><p><b>Augustine of Hippo</b>: \"In this are manifested the children of God and the children of the devil. Whosoever is not righteous is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.\" Aye, now indeed it is manifest of what he speaks: \"Neither he that loveth not his brother.\" Therefore, love alone puts the difference between the children of God and the children of the devil. Let them all sign themselves with the sign of the cross of Christ; let them all respond, Amen; let all sing Alleluia; let all be baptized, let all come to church, let all build the walls of churches: there is no discerning of the children of God from the children of the devil, but only by charity. They that have charity are born of God: they that have it not, are not born of God. A mighty token, a mighty distinction! Have what thou wilt; if this alone thou have not, it profiteth thee nothing: other things if thou have not, have this, and thou hast fulfilled the law. \"For he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law,\" saith the apostle: and, \"Charity is the fulfilling of the law.\" I take this to be the pearl which the merchant man in the Gospel is described to have been seeking, who \"found one pearl, and sold all that he had, and bought it.\" This is the pearl of price, Charity, without which whatever thou mayest have, profiteth thee nothing: which if alone thou have, it sufficeth thee.<br/><i>— Ten Homilies on 1 John 5</i></p><p><b>Bede</b>: By this, the children of God and the children of the devil are made manifest, etc. Therefore, only love distinguishes between the children of God and the children of the devil. Those who have charity are born of God. Those who do not have it are not born of God. Have whatever else you will, if you do not have this alone, it profits you nothing. If you do not have others, have this, and you have fulfilled the law. For he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. And the fullness of the law is charity.<br/><i>— Commentary on the Catholic Epistles</i></p><p><b>Clement of Alexandria ((as quoted by Cassiodorus))</b>: \"Thus we know the children of God, as likewise the children of the devil,\" who choose things like the devil; for so also they are said to be of the wicked one.<br/><i>— From the Latin Translation of Cassiodorus</i></p><p><b>Cyprian</b>: That charity and brotherly affection are to be religiously and stedfastly practised. ...Of this same thing in the Epistle of John: \"In this appear the children of God and the children of the devil. Whosoever is not righteous is not of God, and he who loveth not his brother. For he who hateth his brother is a murderer; and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.\"<br/><i>— Treatise XII. Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews.</i></p><p><b>Cyril of Jerusalem</b>: The chief author of sin is the devil, the begetter of all sin. Before him, no one sinned. Nor did he sin because he was by nature prone to sin (since in that case the responsibility for his sin would lie with his Creator). Rather, being created good he became a devil by his own free choice, receiving that name from his willed action. Though he was originally an archangel, he became a slanderer (diabolos), because of his slandering.<br/><i>— Catechetical Lecture 2:4</i></p><p><b>Didymus the Blind</b>: Since a person who walks in righteousness is born of God, it follows that someone who is so born will love his brothers. Someone who lacks righteousness because he does not practice it, but instead hates his brother, is not born of God.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON 1 JOHN</i></p><p><b>Hippolytus of Rome</b>: And the apostles, who speak of God, in establishing the truth of the advent of the Lord Jesus Christ, have each of them indicated the appearing of these abominable and ruin-working men, and have openly announced their lawless deeds. First of all Peter, the rock of the faith, whom Christ our God called blessed, the teacher of the Church, the first disciple, he who has the keys of the kingdom, has instructed us to this effect: \"Know this first, children, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts. And there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies.\" After him, John the theologian, and the beloved of Christ, in harmony with him, cries, \"The children of the devil are manifest; and even now are there many antichrists; but go not after them. Believe not every spirit, because many false prophets are gone out into the world.\" And then Jude, the brother of James, speaks in like manner: \"In the last times there shall be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts. There be they who, without fear, feed themselves.\" You have observed the concord of the theologians and apostles, and the harmony of their doctrine.<br/><i>— Dubious and Spurious Pieces</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: Wherein? except it be (thus): the former by not sinning, from the time that they were born from God; the latter by sinning, because they are from the devil, just as if they never were born from God? But if he says, \"He who is not righteous is not of God,\" how shall he who is not modest again become (a son) of God, who has already ceased to be so?<br/><i>— On Modesty</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"17cdc6c95fc5390ba37940225b89b2144a4eb462367067bd6ce6b2a7793f1f9c","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":510,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"13fcdcd643b62f13c864f4b13ffa9be5cb59a1acb5989f2717b1442c661fdff6","translator":null,"work":null}