{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-6979","native_reference":{"book_number":290,"chapter_from":11,"chapter_to":11,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":5,"verse_to":5},"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>Athanasius of Alexandria</b>: At all times let us stand firm, but especially now, although many afflictions overtake us and many heretics are furious against us. Let us then, my beloved brothers, celebrate with thanksgiving the holy feast that now draws near to us, \"girding up the loins of our minds,\" like our Savior Jesus Christ, of whom it is written, \"Righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.\"<br/><i>— FESTAL LETTER 3</i></p><p><b>Eusebius of Caesarea</b>: \"Righteousness shall be the girdle of his waist, and truth the girdle of his loins.\" As a king has a belt made of gold and precious stones, so in a prophetic manner, he speaks about the belt made of righteousness and truth. By the belt we may also understand the divinity of the Word, because he is righteousness, according to the apostle: \"He is the source of your life in Christ Jesus, whom God made our wisdom, our righteousness and sanctification and redemption.\" He is also the truth, according to Evangelist: \"I am the way, and the truth, and the life.\" The Word being the righteousness and the truth that comes from the root of Jesse, his waist [belt] points out to his attribute as king and warrior as the Word who conquers the invisible powers and hosts.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON Isaiah 11:7</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"Stand therefore,\" saith he, \"having girded your loins with truth.\" He is not speaking of a literal, physical girdle, for all the language in this passage he employs in a spiritual sense. And observe how methodically he proceeds. First he girds up his soldier. What then is the meaning of this? The man that is loose in his life, and is dissolved in his lusts, and that has his thoughts trailing on the ground, him he braces up by means of this girdle, not suffering him to be impeded by the garments entangling his legs, but leaving him to run with his feet well at liberty. \"Stand therefore, having girded your loins,\" saith he. By the \"loins\" here he means this; just what the keel is in ships, the same are the loins with us, the basis or groundwork of the whole body: for they are, as it were, a foundation, and upon them as the schools of the physicians tell you, the whole frame is built. So then in \"girding up the loins\" he compacts the foundation of our soul; for he is not of course speaking of these loins of our body, but is discoursing spiritually: and as the loins are the foundation alike of the parts both above and below, so is it also in the case of these spiritual loins.<br/><i>— HOMILIES ON Ephesians 23</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"61cb4018e4b1f187c97f1f8f5e5918dffc2574b2e825569a4c8545684cdfd307","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":6979,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"abe1b4a6f33504c66a97045bd3b1811b9b4f647b5caf9741ac99f45368216b80","translator":null,"work":null}