{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-4456","native_reference":{"book_number":20,"chapter_from":12,"chapter_to":12,"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>Gregory the Dialogist</b>: Concerning which it is rightly added: \"You shall consume the head with the feet and the entrails,\" because our Redeemer is the Alpha and Omega, that is, God before the ages and man at the end of the ages. And as we have already said, brothers, we have learned from Paul's testimony that God is the head of Christ. Therefore, to consume the head of the lamb is to receive His divinity by faith. To consume the feet of the lamb is to seek out the footsteps of His humanity by loving and imitating. What indeed are the entrails except the hidden and mystical commands of His words? These we consume when we take up the words of life with eagerness. In this word \"consuming,\" what else is reproved but the torpor of our sloth? We who do not seek out His words and mysteries by ourselves, and hear the things spoken by others unwillingly.</p><p>\"Nothing of it shall remain until morning,\" because His words must be examined with great care, so that before the day of resurrection appears, in this night of the present life all His commands may be penetrated through understanding and doing. But because it is very difficult for all sacred eloquence to be understood and every mystery of it to be penetrated, it is rightly added: \"But if anything remains, you shall burn it with fire.\" What remains of the lamb we burn with fire when we humbly reserve to the power of the Holy Spirit that which we cannot understand and penetrate concerning the mystery of His incarnation, so that no one may proudly dare either to despise or to proclaim what he does not understand, but hands it over to the fire when he reserves it to the Holy Spirit.<br/><i>— Forty Gospel Homilies, Homily 22</i></p><p><b>Origen of Alexandria</b>: Consequently let us compare the divine Scripture with itself and follow the path of the solution that it would open to us. For we find in the sacrifice of the Passover that it is ordered to be offered \"in the evening.\" In like manner, the command is given that \"nothing will remain of the flesh until morning.\" It is not insignificant that the divine word wants us to eat not yesterday's meat, but always fresh and new, particularly those who offer to God the Passover sacrifice or \"the sacrifice of praise.\" It commands them to eat this new and fresh meat of the same day. It prohibits yesterday's meat. I remembered the prophet Ezekiel said something similar when the Lord had commanded him to bake cakes for them in \"human dung.\" For he answered the Lord and said, \"O Lord, never was my soul contaminated, and dead or unclean things did not enter my mouth. Even yesterday's meat never entered my mouth.\" In this case I was often asking myself what this exultation of the prophet was that as something great he brought mean before the Lord and said, \"I never ate yesterday's meat.\" But as I see from this place, taught and instructed by these mysteries, this prophet spoke to the Lord saying, I am not a priest so cast down and ignoble that \"I eat yesterday's meat,\" that is, old meat.<br/><i>— HOMILIES ON Leviticus 5.8.2</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"3143d20d45af1bdb34f6be7785872ea294181e618b6ce073af45a5f90f906f05","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":4456,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"f79d5c255a57153776fb297edb2edceaef4b28bc6eb05af6f129da5dc76807ad","translator":null,"work":null}