{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-6879","native_reference":{"book_number":350,"chapter_from":6,"chapter_to":6,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":3,"verse_to":3},"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>Cyril of Alexandria</b>: For I suppose that he waters in two ways upon us who received faith and have known rightly his manifestation. On the one hand, he reveals knowledge in the spirit of the old and legal, and in addition to these, prophetic teachings. In my view, this is the early rain. On the other hand, he adds to this the late [rain], the interpretation of the gospel's teachings and the most desirable grace of the apostolic preachings.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON Hosea 4:62</i></p><p><b>Hippolytus of Rome</b>: Nor is this the only thing that proves the dignity of the water. But there is also that which is more honorable than all—the fact that Christ, the maker of all, came down as the rain, and was known as a spring, and diffused himself as a river, and was baptized in the Jordan. For you have just heard how Jesus came to John and was baptized by him in the Jordan. Oh, things strange beyond compare! How should the boundless river that makes glad the city of God have been dipped in a little water!<br/><i>— ON THE HOLY THEOPHANY 2</i></p><p><b>Jerome</b>: His going forth is prepared as the morning light, and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.\" LXX: \"We shall find him ready as the morning, and he shall come to us as the early and the latter rain to the earth.\" Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. And let us know, let us follow on to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth. About which the title of the twenty-first psalm is: \"For the morning assumption:\" Although it is written in Hebrew: \"For the morning deer:\" because after death and the twisted ancient serpent he desires to climb towards the mountains, and he, with the darkness dissipated, rises to us the sun of justice, that he may illuminate our blindness. And it is beautifully said, \"his going forth is from the end of heaven, and his circuit even to the end of it.\" concerning which, according to the tropology, we read in the eighteenth psalm: \"And he, as a bridegroom, coming out of his bride-chamber.\" (Ps. XVIII, 5). He who is not only called morning, dawn, and daybreak, but will come to us like a temporary and late rain to the earth. We receive Christ as a temporary (savior), when the foundations of faith have been cast in us, and we will welcome rain in the late season when we will gather eternal crops from the mature crops, and we will be stored in the Lord's granaries. Therefore, you Jews who do not receive temporary rain, and without rains cast seeds, will not receive the fruits of crops in the end times. This is the rain of which the Lord promises, saying: \"I will give you rain in due season, and the latter rain\" (Deut. 11:14). According to the allegory, rain is given in due season, when we partly know: the latter rain is given when what is perfect comes. And the Lord is always ready for those who rise in the morning, who can say, \"I will arise at dawn\" (Ps. 56:1). And: \"O God, my God, I watch for you at break of day. My soul thirsts for you\" (Ps. 62).<br/><i>— Commentary on Hosea 6:3</i></p><p><b>Jerome</b>: [God] is called not only at morning or dawn or daybreak; he will come to us as an early and later rain to earth. We accept Christ as an early rain when the foundations of the faith are laid within us, and we shall take him as a late rain when after the crop is ripened we grasp eternal fruits and store them up in the Master's barn.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON Hosea 2:6</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"0e4803eb2ba11d02c9ddb0e6ea57beb204055f6f27adaa4defbeb399fbbc3243","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":6879,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"d8ef5dfabcc84bc8367dd7dfd18fce395a9602ad46e1a1928c94632fe0d4e776","translator":null,"work":null}