{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-4315","native_reference":{"book_number":560,"chapter_from":5,"chapter_to":5,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":2,"verse_to":2},"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>Gaius Marius Victorinus</b>: As Father and Son are of one substance, so too they are one in will.… The Son offered himself to the Father that through this mystery of his sacrifice all things might be made new by his Spirit. In this way he himself is the aroma of sweetness.<br/><i>— EPISTLE TO THE Ephesians 2.5.2</i></p><p><b>Jerome</b>: Who is it that truly walks in love? The one who, for the salvation of others, contends against sin to the point of shedding blood, so as even to give up his soul for them. That is the one who walks in love, imitating Christ.<br/><i>— Commentary on Ephesians 5:2</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"Walk in love.\" Behold, here, the groundwork of all! So then where this is, there is no \"wrath, no anger, no clamor, no railing,\" but all are done away. Accordingly he puts the chief point last. Whence wast thou made a child? Because thou wast forgiven. On the same ground on which thou hast had so vast a privilege vouchsafed thee, on that selfsame ground forgive thy neighbor. Tell me, I say, if thou wert in prison, and hadst ten thousand misdeeds to answer for, and some one were to bring thee into the palace; or rather to pass over this argument, suppose thou wert in a fever and in the agonies of death, and some one were to benefit thee by some medicine, wouldest thou not value him more than all, yea and the very name of the medicine? For if we thus regard occasions and places by which we are benefited, even as our own souls, much more shall we the things themselves. Be a lover then of love; for by this art thou saved, by this hast thou been made a son. And if thou shalt have it in thy power to save another, wilt thou not use the same remedy, and give the advice to all, \"Forgive, that ye may be forgiven\"? Thus to incite one another, were the part of grateful, of generous, and noble spirits.<br/><i>— Homily on Ephesians 17</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"Even as Christ also,\" he adds, \"loved you.\" Thou art only sparing friends, He enemies. So then far greater is that boon which cometh from our Master. For how in our case is the \"even as\" preserved. Surely it is clear that it will be, by our doing good to our enemies.<br/><i>— Homily on Ephesians 17</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"And gave Himself up for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a sweet smell.\" Seest thou that to suffer for one's enemies is \"a sweet-smelling savor,\" and an \"acceptable sacrifice\"? And if thou shalt die, then wilt thou be indeed a sacrifice. This it is to \"imitate God.\"<br/><i>— Homily on Ephesians 17</i></p><p><b>Theodoret of Cyrus</b>: Here too he reveals the equality of the Father and the Son. For having called them to be imitators of God, he then urges the same pattern with respect to the Son. The Father has bestowed forgiveness. The Son has loved us and gave up his life for us.<br/><i>— Interpretation of the Epistle to the Ephesians 5.2</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"e2a14d8014c5c76ee0555c6b51a94325e6514a13af0d10c8774557ba96ad4611","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":4315,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"fcdd2501ce06e3e11e9dd3b0927be07fd3af72a0da5cd97db7921420e008c9eb","translator":null,"work":null}