{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-7530","native_reference":{"book_number":290,"chapter_from":47,"chapter_to":47,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":6,"verse_to":6},"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>: But when these accursed ones obtain possession of anyone, they immediately forget not only all others but even themselves. Raising their brow in great haughtiness, they neither grasp the times and seasons nor respect human nature in those whom they injure. Like the tyrant of Babylon, they attack more furiously; they show pity to none. \"For they persecute him whom you have smitten, and him whom you have wounded, they afflict still more.\" Had they not acted in this manner, had they not driven into banishment those who spoke in my defense against their calumnies, their representations might have appeared to some persons sufficiently plausible.<br/><i>— DEFENSE OF HIS FLIGHT 9</i></p><p><b>Cyril of Alexandria</b>: Out of love God disciplines, then, those who were thoughtless.… They were made docile through their trials. He did this by delivering them into the hands of their enemies or by the affliction of other pains, just as fire and iron often heal a wound where medicine fails. In the same manner our God, a lover of virtue, when he sees a soul rushing onto the rocks with the force of vast waves and getting mixed up in the ways of wickedness, restores that person through harsh punishments.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON Isaiah 4:3.47:5-7</i></p><p><b>Theodoret of Cyrus</b>: For they have burned the temple of God, they have consecrated the sacred vessels to idols, and they have used cruelty against the prisoners. \"I gave them into your hands.\" You would not have carried off the victory if I had not willed it. I delivered them [to you] because I wanted to correct them, not exterminate them. \"But you did not extend mercy to them; you made the yoke of the aged very heavy.\" Even age did not seem to you worthy of respect. [Isaiah] has by this trait shown the extent of their hardness.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON Isaiah 14:47.6</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"23f58ae53520b31baaf3457597d11a84b80ae08bb9bdfaa73de575b16e340fb5","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":7530,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"959a36a27b2f8c433f24e04977420c2fceb1ce31df72a1f5eeb5b6758255fd92","translator":null,"work":null}