{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-6897","native_reference":{"book_number":350,"chapter_from":7,"chapter_to":7,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":14,"verse_to":14},"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>Jerome</b>: \"They muttered about wheat and wine: they separated themselves from me.\" LXX: \"Over wheat and wine they were being cut to pieces.\" On account of the abundance, they said, they have fallen because of their own foolishness. Which Ezekiel also mentions was done in Sodom and Gomorrah (Ezek. XIX), that they chewed on nothing other than food and lust: for which reason the Seventy translated, \"they were sliced over grain and wine,\" as an example of the prophets of Baal, who, with Elijah present, prayed for rain by cutting off the members (III Kings. XVIII). And at the same time, to show that they were like animals, he did not say they ate, but ruminated: and therefore they wandered from the Lord. Concerning wheat and wine, and false mysteries of the body and blood of Christ, who says in the Gospel: \"Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone\" (John 12:24): And in another place: \"I am the true vine\" (John 15:1): And: \"Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you\" (John 6:54). Therefore, heretics fall over this with wheat and wine and construct different tabernacles for themselves: whether they are prevented by the body of the Church, and simulate meditating and reflecting on the law of God.<br/><i>— Commentary on Hosea 7:14-16</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"bdc7621e8e61fa8813077bb77fff6174163e92a665c82291ebbf00e572f4aa14","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":6897,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"577679e619407ca3d9cf0d0e9f924fdd3a47378c9c9485e979c8f4ef089e5033","translator":null,"work":null}