{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-122","native_reference":{"book_number":530,"chapter_from":11,"chapter_to":11,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":32,"verse_to":32},"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>Ambrosiaster</b>: The person who comes to the Lord's table irreverently is no better than an unbeliever.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES</i></p><p><b>Clement of Alexandria</b>: For the law, in its solicitude for those who obey, trains up to piety, and prescribes what is to be done, and restrains each one from sins, imposing penalties even on lesser sins. But when it sees any one in such a condition as to appear incurable, posting to the last stage of wickedness, then in its solicitude for the rest, that they may not be destroyed by it (just as if amputating a part from the whole body), it condemns such an one to death, as the course most conducive to health. \"Being judged by the Lord,\" says the apostle, \"we are chastened, that we may not be condemned with the world.\" For the prophet had said before, \"Chastening, the Lord hath chastised me, but hath not given me over unto death.\"<br/><i>— The Stromata Book 1</i></p><p><b>Clement of Alexandria</b>: \"Being judged by the Lord,\" says the apostle, \"we are chastened, that we may not be condemned with the world.\" For the prophet had said before, \"Chastening, the Lord hath chastised me, but hath not given me over unto death.\" \"For in order to teach thee His righteousness,\" it is said, \"He chastised thee and tried thee, and made thee to hunger and thirst in the desert land; that all His statutes and His judgments may be known in thy heart, as I command thee this day; and that thou mayest know in thine heart, that just as if a man were chastising his son, so the Lord our God shall chastise thee.\"<br/><i>— The Stromata Book 1</i></p><p><b>Hippolytus of Rome</b>: Now the image is the Spirit that is wafted over the water; and whosoever is not fashioned into a figure of this, will perish with the world, inasmuch as he continues only potentially, and does exist actually. This, he says, is what has been spoken, \"that we should not be condemned with the world.\" If one, however, be made into the figure of (the Spirit), and be generated from an indivisible point, as it has been written in the Announcement, (such a one, albeit) small, will become great. But what is great will continue unto infinite and unalterable duration, as being that which no longer is subject to the conditions of a generated entity.<br/><i>— Hippolytus Refutation of All Heresies Book VI</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: Instead of passing idly by what are considered slight sins, let us daily require an account of ourselves for words and glances and execute sentence upon ourselves so as to be free from punishment later. This is the reason Paul said, \"If we judge ourselves, we would not be judged.\" Thus if we judge ourselves for our sins every day here, we shall preclude the severity of the judgment in that other place. But if we should be remiss, \"we will be judged and chastised by the Lord.\" So let us take the initiative in passing sentence on ourselves with all good will, holding the court of conscience unbeknown to anyone. Let us examine our own thoughts and determine a proper verdict so that through fear of imminent punishment our mind may forbear to be dragged down and instead may check its impulses, and by keeping in view that unsleeping eye may ward off the devil's advances.<br/><i>— HOMILIES ON Genesis 60.16</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"Do not ye judge them that are within, whereas them that are without, God judgeth?\" For since he had said, \"What have I to do with judging those without;\" lest any one should think that these were left unpunished, there is another tribunal which he sets over them, and that a fearful one. And this he said, both to terrify those, and to console these; intimating also that this punishment which is for a season snatches them away from that which is undying and perpetual: which also he has plainly declared elsewhere, saying, \"But now being judged, we are chastened, that we should not be condemned with the world.\"<br/><i>— Homily on 1 Corinthians 16</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord.\" He said not, we are punished, he said not, we have vengeance taken on us, but, \"we are chastened.\" For what is done belongs rather to admonition than condemnation, to healing than vengeance, to correction than punishment. And not so only but by the threat of a greater evil he makes the present light, saying, \"that we may not be condemned with the world.\" Seest thou how he brings in hell also and that tremendous judgment-seat, and signifies that that trial and punishment is necessary and by all means must be? for if the faithful, and such as God especially cares for, escape not without punishment in whatsoever things they offend, (and this is evident from things present,) much more the unbelieving and they who commit the unpardonable and incurable sins.<br/><i>— Homily on 1 Corinthians 28</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"c312741ad50ef13474f4cd5133e1a83124abccd2c84698b368e4b76bea684e79","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":122,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"d1a24fb27356147730784368a418d196536377522d9425ebfb9dbc57b493d582","translator":null,"work":null}